A Newman-Penrose Calculator for Instanton Metrics

Nov, 2007
19 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.C 19 (2008) 1277
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a Maple11+GRTensorII based symbolic calculator for instanton metrics using Newman-Penrose formalism. Gravitational instantons are exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations with Euclidean signature. The Newman-Penrose formalism, which supplies a toolbox for studying the exact solutions of Einstein's field equations, was adopted to the instanton case and our code translates it for the computational use.
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  • Gravitational instantons
  • Newman-Penrose formalism
  • symbolic computation