Simply-transitive homothety groups (Q1177046)

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    Simply-transitive homothety groups (English)
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    25 June 1992
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    The author uses the spin-coefficient formalism of Penrose and Rindler to obtain spacetimes admitting a simply-transitive group of homotheties. Vacuum metrics with a five-dimensional homothety group are also considered.
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    spin-coefficient formalism
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    vacuum metrics
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