2012

Peeling of the Weyl tensor and gravitational radiation in higher dimensions

Godazgar, Mahdi, Reall, Harvey S.

Understand

The peeling behaviour of the Weyl tensor near null infinity is determined for an asymptotically flat higher dimensional spacetime.

  • The result is qualitatively different from the peeling property in 4d.
  • To leading order, the Weyl tensor is type N.
  • The first subleading term is type II.

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