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Null Raychaudhuri equation

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For an affinely parametrized null congruence in four spacetime dimensions,
dλdθ​=−21​θ2−σab​σab+ωab​ωab−Rab​kakb.
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Null Raychaudhuri equation
For a hypersurface-orthogonal null congruence under the null energy condition, an initially negative expansion θ0​ diverges to −∞ within affine distance at most 2/∣θ0​∣.

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