Anandh Krishna Murichatta

Newman–Penrose and GHP formalisms

Two-component spinors, the Newman–Penrose and GHP formalisms, and the compacted GHP calculus.

Notes on the spin-coefficient formalisms, following Penrose and Rindler for two-component spinors and [GHP73] for the GHP calculus.

Contents

  1. §1 Spinors and two-component notation in preparation
  2. §1 The Newman–Penrose formalism in preparation
  3. §2 The GHP calculus in preparation
  4. §3 Compacted GHP (cGHP) in preparation
  5. §4 Applications to type-D spacetimes in preparation

References

  1. [GHP73] R. Geroch, A. Held, R. Penrose, A space-time calculus based on pairs of null directions, J. Math. Phys. 14, 874 (1973). doi