On an alignment condition of the Weyl tensor

DOI10.1023/A:1016365830842zbMath0996.83015MaRDI QIDQ1612716

C. Lozanovski, John Carminati

Publication date: 26 August 2002

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

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl tensor; perfect fluid spacetimes; exact solutions of Einstein equation; fluid 4-velocity; Petrov type D spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

83C55: Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.)

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

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Uses Software

• NPTOOLS

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