Gravitational waves in vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant. I. Classification and geometrical properties of nontwisting type N solutions

DOI10.1063/1.532981zbMath0956.83008arXivgr-qc/9907048MaRDI QIDQ4270440

Jiří Bičák, Jirí Podolský

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9907048

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational waves; vacuum Einstein field equations; expanding Robinson-Trautman class; nonexpanding Kundt class; nontwisting Petrof-type \(N\) solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C20: Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C35: Gravitational waves

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