Not conformally Einstein metrics in conformal gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/16/165015zbMATH Open1277.83088arXiv1303.5781OpenAlexW3105827526WikidataQ58664316 ScholiaQ58664316MaRDI QIDQ2851407FDOQ2851407

Authors: Hai-Shan Liu, Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz, Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope 

Publication date: 10 October 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The equations of motion of four-dimensional conformal gravity, whose Lagrangian is the square of the Weyl tensor, require that the Bach tensor $E_{muu}=(abl{a}^{h}oabl{a}^{s}igma+ft12R^{hosigma})C_{muhousigma}$ vanishes. Since $E_{muu}$ is zero for any Einstein metric, and any conformal scaling of such a metric, it follows that large classes of solutions in four-dimensional conformal gravity are simply given by metrics that are conformal to Einstein metrics (including Ricci-flat). In fact it becomes more intriguing to find solutions that are {it not} conformally Einstein. We obtain five new such vacua, which are homogeneous and have asymptotic generalized Lifshitz anisotropic scaling symmetry. Four of these solutions can be further generalized to metrics that are conformal to classes of pp-waves, with a covariantly-constant null vector. We also obtain large classes of generalized Lifshitz vacua in Einstein-Weyl gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5781

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zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionWeyl gravityWeyl tensorBach tensorPetrov typeconformal gravityconformally Einstein metricEinstein-Weyl gravitygravitational pp-waves

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) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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