Equations for Complex-Valued, Twisting, Type N, Vacuum Solutions, with one or two Killing/homothetic vectors

dc.creatorFinley, Daniel
dc.date2001-08-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:26:16Z
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dc.descriptionHH-spaces, i.e., complex spacetimes, of Petrov type NxN are determined by a trio of pde's for two functions, lambda and a, of three independent variables (and also two gauge functions, chosen to be two of the independent variables if one prefers). As in common integrable systems, these form a second order, linear system for lambda; howver, here the integrability conditions, involving a, are more complicated than is common. Therefore, with the hope of finding new solutions, these equations are now constrained to also admit both one and two homothetic or Killing vectors. The case with one Killing and one homothetic vector reduces these equations to two ode's for two unknown functions of the one remaining variable. In addition, we also describe in detail the explicit forms of the metric, tetrad, connections, and curvature for twisting HH-spaces of Petrov type NxN, modulo the determining equations. This simplifies considerably the process of obtaining these details cleanly from earlier articles on the subject, thus simplifying access to the research area.
dc.description7 pages, TeX file, from a talk at GR16, Durban, South Africa, July, 2001
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108055
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108055
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/33982
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleEquations for Complex-Valued, Twisting, Type N, Vacuum Solutions, with one or two Killing/homothetic vectors
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