On conformally flat and type N pure radiation metrics

DOI10.1007/s10714-008-0692-7zbMath1177.83050arXiv0812.4944MaRDI QIDQ1035965

Ondřej Prikryl, Jirí Podolský

Publication date: 4 November 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4944

zbMATH Keywords

pure radiation; conformally flat solutions; Kundt spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

83C15: Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C35: Gravitational waves

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