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The Newman-Penrose Formalism

  • Pedro Bargueño*
  • , Ernesto Contreras
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Alicante

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Abstract

A tetrad field is a set of four orthonormal vectors defined at each point of spacetime. Although the differential geometry of such a structure immersed in a general Riemannian manifold was first considered by Ricci (1895), tetrads were used during the 1930s in connection with GR.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringerBriefs in Physics
PublisherSpringer VS
Pages9-24
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Sep 2023

Publication series

NameSpringerBriefs in Physics
VolumePart F1469
ISSN (Print)2191-5423
ISSN (Electronic)2191-5431

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