Bertotti–Robinson and Melvin spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/21/215012MaRDI QIDQ3102273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Garfinkle, E. N. Glass

Publication date 2 December 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1535

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) 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) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Similarities between the Melvin and Bertotti-Robinson spacetimes are discussed and a uniqueness conjecture is formulated.

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