On the geometry of generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes: Curvature and Killing fields (Q1305338)
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On the geometry of generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes: Curvature and Killing fields (English)
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28 June 2001
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Generalized Robertson-Walker (GRW) spacetimes are warped products of open real intervals with (semi)-Riemannian manifolds; in dimension four, they are the models for the large-scale universe, but their geometry is interesting in any dimension. The paper under review characterizes the GRW spacetimes admitting non-trivial Killing vector fields, giving an explicit list in the globally hyperbolic case.
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generalized Robertson-Walker spacetime
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Killing field
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globally hyperbolic spacetime
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