Perfect fluid space-times with a two-dimensional orthogonally transitive group of homothetic motions

DOI10.1007/BF02104751zbMath0860.53065MaRDI QIDQ1921888

Charalampos A. Kolassis, Jerry B. Griffiths

Publication date: 21 April 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

homothety; groups of motions; Penrose formalism; perflect fluid spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

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

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