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When we deal with the quantities that rescale under spin and boost transformations, we then have another example of tetrad formalism. This is known as Groch-Held-Penrose (GHP) formalism and the details of this formalism are given here.
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In fact, the necessary and sufficient condition for the congruence C(k) to be hypersurface orthogonal, according to Schouten [10], is \(k_{[a}{\nabla }_{b}k_{c]}=0\).
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Ahsan, Z. (2019). The Geroch–Held–Penrose Formalism. In: The Potential of Fields in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8976-4_3
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