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Wedging spacetime principal null directions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-07-26 v1

Abstract

Taking wedge products of the pp distinct principal null directions associated with the eigen-bivectors of the Weyl tensor associated with the Petrov classification, when linearly independent, one is able to express them in terms of the eigenvalues governing this decomposition. We study here algebraic and differential properties of such pp-forms by completing previous geometrical results concerning type I spacetimes and extending that analysis to algebraically special spacetimes with at least 2 distinct principal null directions. A number of vacuum and nonvacuum spacetimes are examined to illustrate the general treatment.

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@article{arxiv.2302.03367,
  title  = {Wedging spacetime principal null directions},
  author = {D. Bini and A. Geralico and R. T. Jantzen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03367},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages, no figures

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