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Curvature without metric: the Penrose construction for half-flat pp-waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-06-19 v1

Abstract

We derive the Penrose data for half-flat pp-waves and extend his original construction for the Weyl spinor of plane waves in terms of this data.

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@article{arxiv.2203.10631,
  title  = {Curvature without metric: the Penrose construction for half-flat pp-waves},
  author = {Peter C. Aichelburg and Herbert Balasin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10631},
  year   = {2024}
}