/* Copyright (C) 2004 Viktor T. Toth * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * MAXIMA CTENSOR demo: The Petrov classification of the Kerr metric. * */ ("Attempt to compute the Petrov classification of the Kerr metric.")$ ("First, we need to load modules and define the metric:")$ if get('ctensor,'version)=false then load(ctensor); init_ctensor(); gcd:spmod; ct_coords:[t,r,h,p]$ declare([a,m],constant)$ s(r,h):=r^2+(a*cos(h))^2$ d(r):=a^2-2*m*r+r^2$ dim:4$ fri:matrix( [sqrt(d(r)/s(r,h)), 0, 0, -sqrt(d(r)/s(r,h))*a*sin(h)^2], [0, sqrt(s(r,h)/d(r)), 0, 0], [0, 0, sqrt(s(r,h)), 0 ], [-a/sqrt(s(r,h))*sin(h), 0, 0, (s(r,h)+(a*sin(h))^2)*sin(h)/sqrt(s(r,h))]); ("We need aggressive simplification to ensure that the result is correct.")$ ctrgsimp:true; ratfac:true; cframe_flag:true; cmetric(false); ug:invert(lg)$ nptetrad(false); ("Verify the tetrad")$ trigsimp(np.transpose(npi)); christof(false); lriemann(false); ricci(false); weyl(false); /* ("Since we use a tetrad frame, the Weyl tensor was computed in the tetrad base. We need the Weyl tensor in the coordinate base to compute the Newman-Penrose coefficients, so we must do a conversion first. Please be patient; this is not very efficient and will take a while:")$ for i thru dim do for j thru dim do for k thru dim do for l thru dim do w2[i,j,k,l]:weyl[i,j,k,l]; for i thru dim do for j thru dim do for k thru dim do for l thru dim do weyl[i,j,k,l]:sum(sum(sum(sum(w2[ii,jj,kk,ll]*fri[ii,i]*fri[jj,j]* fri[kk,k]*fri[ll,l],ii,1,dim),jj,1,dim),kk,1,dim),ll,1,dim); */ ("Now we are ready to compute the Newman-Penrose coefficients:")$ psi(true); petrov(); /* End of demo -- comment line needed by MAXIMA to resume demo menu */