The Newman–Penrose (NP) formalism is a mathematical framework used in the field of General Relativity and theoretical physics to study the properties of spacetime and gravitational fields. Developed by physicists Ezra Newman and Roger Penrose in the 1960s, this formalism is particularly useful for analyzing asymptotically flat spacetimes, such as those found in models of gravitational radiation and black hole physics.
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The Newman--Penrose formalism resolves spacetime curvature into scalars by contracting the Weyl tensor with a complex null tetrad.