Symmetry analysis of radiative spacetimes with a null isotropy using GHP formalism

DOI10.1007/S10714-014-1797-9zbMath1305.83029arXiv1406.7864OpenAlexW2088311529MaRDI QIDQ481741

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 12 December 2014

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7864

zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesgeneralised invariant formalismKarlhede classificationpure radiation spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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