Some remarks on symmetries and transformation groups in general relativity

DOI10.1023/A:1026604822781zbMath0941.83010WikidataQ124852192 ScholiaQ124852192MaRDI QIDQ1807328

Graham S. Hall

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

zbMATH Keywords

symmetries; general relativity; Lie transformation group; Lie algebra of symmetry vector fields; Palais theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

22E70: Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations

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

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