Homothetic and conformal symmetries of solutions to Einstein's equations

DOI10.1007/BF01210929zbMath0604.53038WikidataQ125346856 ScholiaQ125346856MaRDI QIDQ1083047

Jerrold E. Marsden, Vincent E. Moncrief, Douglas M. Eardley, James A. Isenberg

Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's equationsglobally hyperbolicconformal symmetryenergy conditionsspatially compactasymptotically flat solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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