Massless spinning test particles in algebraically special vacuum spacetimes.

The motion of massless spinning test particles is investigated using the Newman-Penrose formalism within the Mathisson-Papapetrou model extended to massless particles by Mashhoon and supplemented by the Pirani condition. When the “multipole reduction world line” lies along a principal null direction...

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Main Authors: Bini, Donato., Cherubini, Christian., Geralico, Andrea., Jantzen, Robert.
Format: Villanova Faculty Authorship
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?url=https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:177382