Type D vacuum solutions: a new intrinsic approach

DOI10.1007/S10714-014-1703-5zbMATH Open1294.83019arXiv1309.4633OpenAlexW3100251126MaRDI QIDQ2248772FDOQ2248772

Authors: Joan Josep Ferrando, Juan Antonio Sáez 

Publication date: 27 June 2014

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

Abstract: We present a new approach to the intrinsic properties of the type D vacuum solutions based on the invariant symmetries that these spacetimes admit. By using tensorial formalism and without explicitly integrating the field equations, we offer a new proof that the upper bound of covariant derivatives of the Riemann tensor required for a Cartan-Karlhede classification is two. Moreover we show that, except for the Ehlers-Kundt's C-metrics, the Riemann derivatives depend on the first order ones, and for the C-metrics they depend on the first order derivatives and on a second order constant invariant. In our analysis the existence of an invariant complex Killing vector plays a central role. It also allows us to easily obtain and to geometrically interpret several known relations. We apply to the vacuum case the intrinsic classification of the type D spacetimes based on the first order differential properties of the 2+2 Weyl principal structure, and we show that only six classes are compatible. We define several natural and suitable subclasses and present an operational algorithm to detect them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4633

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zbMATH Keywords

Cartan-Karlhede classificationintrinsic classificationinvariant complex Killing vectorinvariant symmetriestype D solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) 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)

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