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Optical scalars for conformally equivalent spaces in the general theory of relativity

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We obtain and investigate relationships between the optical scalars (expansion, rotation, shear) of isotropic congruences in conformally related spaces.

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  1. Yaroslavskii Technological Institute, USSR

    Yu. ya. Kolbovskii

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 31–34, January, 1974.

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Kolbovskii, Y.y. Optical scalars for conformally equivalent spaces in the general theory of relativity. Soviet Physics Journal 17, 22–24 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00889908

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