Conformal geodesics on vacuum space-times

Jan, 2002
34 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 235 (2003) 513-543
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We discuss properties of conformal geodesics on general, vacuum, and warped product space-times and derive a system of conformal deviation equations. The results are used to show how to construct on the Schwarzschild-Kruskal space-time global conformal Gauss coordinates which extends smoothly and without degeneracy to future and past null infinity.