Algebraically special Einstein-Maxwell fields

DOI10.1007/S10714-016-2171-XzbMATH Open1367.83022arXiv1605.05830OpenAlexW2520688880MaRDI QIDQ2012365FDOQ2012365

Authors: Norbert Van den Bergh 

Publication date: 31 July 2017

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

Abstract: The Geroch-Held-Penrose formalism is used to re-analyse algebraically special non-null Einstein-Maxwell fields, aligned as well as non-aligned, in the presence of a possible non-vanishing cosmological constant. A new invariant characterisation is given of the Garcia-Plebanski and Plebanski-Hacyan metrics within the family of aligned solutions and of the Griffiths metrics within the family of the non-aligned solutions. As a corollary also the double alignment of the Debever-McLenaghan 'class D' metrics with non-vanishing cosmological constant is shown to be equivalent with the shear-free and geodesic behaviour of their Debever-Penrose vectors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05830

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zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsgeodesicEinstein-MaxwellGeroch-Held-Penrose formalismalgebraically specialGoldberg-Sachs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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