A note on Penrose limits

Abstract

As a footnote to arXiv:1909.07756, I show that, given a (time-like) umbilic 3-surface in a 4-dimensional space-time M, the Penrose limit taken along any null geodesic which lies in is a diagonalisable plane-wave.

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