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In
general relativity, the peeling theorem describes the asymptotic behavior of the
Weyl tensor as one goes to
null infinity. Let be a
null geodesic in a
spacetime from a point p to null infinity, with
affine parameter . Then the theorem states that, as tends to infinity:
where is the Weyl tensor, and
abstract index notation is used. Moreover, in the
Petrov classification, is type N, is type III, is type II (or II-II) and is type I.
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