Proper homothetic maps and fixed points

DOI10.1007/BF00419621MaRDI QIDQ1252643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John K. Beem

Publication date 1978

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00419621

zbMATH Keywords

Characterizations of Minkowski SpacetimeFixedn PointFlat MetricProper Homothetic MapPseudoriemannian Manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Cites work

• A note on proper homothetic motions
• Similarities and differentiability
• The topology of Minkowski space
• Zeeman topologies on space-times of general relativity theory

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(16)

• Homothetic transformations with fixed points in spacetime
• Vacuum type N space-times admitting homothetic vector fields with isolated fixed points
• Conformal vector fields and conformal-type collineations in space-times
• Symmetries and geometry in general relativity
• Some remarks on wave solutions in general relativity theory
• Conformal vector fields on spacetimes
• Conformal symmetries and fixed points in space-time
• Affine collineations in space-time
• Space–times admitting a three-parameter similarity group
• Affine collineations in general relativity and their fixed point structure
• Classification and conformal symmetry in three-dimensional space–times
• Classification of proper teleparallel conformal symmetry of spherically symmetric static spacetimes using diagonal tetrads
• Special conformal symmetries in general relativity
• Zeros of homothetic vector fields in 4-dimensional manifolds of neutral signature
• Symmetries of Lorentzian three-manifolds with recurrent curvature
• Homothety groups in space-time

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