Higher dimensional conformal metrics from PDEs and null-surface formulation of GR

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/14/145004zbMATH Open1246.83026arXiv1111.3232OpenAlexW3104669855MaRDI QIDQ2902295FDOQ2902295

Authors: Emanuel Gallo 

Publication date: 17 August 2012

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

Abstract: We analyze the relationship between $n$-dimensional conformal metrics and a certain class of partial differential equations (PDEs) that are in duality with the eikonal equation. In particular, we extend the Null Surface Formulation of General Relativity to higher dimensions and give explicit expressions for the components of the metric and the generalized W"{u}nschmann-like metricity conditions. We also compute the equation that the conformal factor must satisfy in order the metric be a solution of the Einstein equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3232

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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