Lanczos potentials and curvature-free connections aligned to a geodesic shear-free expanding null congruence
| dc.creator | Andersson, Fredrik | |
| dc.date | 2000-02-03 | |
| dc.date | 2000-04-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:24:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:24:44Z | |
| dc.description | By the method of rho-integration we obtain all Lanczos potentials L_{ABCA'} of the Weyl spinor that, in a certain sense, are aligned to a geodesic shear-free expanding null congruence. We also obtain all spinors H_{ABA'B'}=Q_{AB}o_{A'}o_{B'}, Q_{AB}=Q_{(AB)} satisfying nabla_{(A}{}^{B'}H_{BC)A'B'}=L_{ABCA'}. We go on to prove that H_{ABA'B'} can be chosen so that Gamma_{ABCA'}=nabla_{(A}{}^{B'} H_{B)CA'B'} defines a metric asymmetric curvature-free connection such that L_{ABCA'}=Gamma_{(ABC)A'} is a Lanczos potential that is aligned to the geodesic shear-free expanding congruence. These results are a generalization to a large class of algebraically special spacetimes (including all vacuum ones for which the principal null direction is expanding) of the curvature-free connection of the Kerr spacetime found by Bergqvist and Ludvigsen, which was used in a construction of quasi-local momentum. | |
| dc.description | 34 pages, LaTeX file; New section added, Slight changes in old sections | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0002016 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0002016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/33450 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Lanczos potentials and curvature-free connections aligned to a geodesic shear-free expanding null congruence | |
| dc.type | text |