Asymptotic structure of spacetime and the Newman-Penrose formalism. a brief review

QUIROGA, G D

REVISTA MEXICANA DE FíSICA

SOC MEXICANA FISICA

Lugar: México; Año: 2017 vol. 63 p. 275 - 286

0035-001X

A brief review about the Newman-Penrose formalism and the asymptotic structure of the spacetime is given. The goal of this review is to describe the latest developments in these topics and make a summary of the most important articles published by Newman and collaborators. Additionally, we discuss some aspects of this approach, and we compute the spin coefficients and the Weyl scalars for a general stationary axisymmetric spacetimes in a tetrad basis different from that defined by the principal null geodesic directions.