A note on Kundt spacetimes of type N with a cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAC39BMaRDI QIDQ3177438zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcello Ortaggio

Publication date 25 July 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03524

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsgravitational wavesEinstein-Maxwell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: In recent literature there appeared conflicting claims about whether the Ozsv'ath-Robinson-R'ozga family of type N electrovac spacetimes of the Kundt class with $Lambda$ is complete. We show that indeed it is.

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