Conformal symmetries and fixed points in space-time

DOI10.1063/1.528753zbMath0715.53043OpenAlexW1983835065MaRDI QIDQ3202800

Graham S. Hall

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528753

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsgeneral relativityconformal vector fieldsgeneralized plane wavefixed point structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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Cites Work

• Selfsimilar Lorentzian manifolds
• Homothetic transformations with fixed points in spacetime
• Conformal groups and conformally equivalent isometry groups
• Proper homothetic maps and fixed points
• Symmetries of the nontwisting type-N solutions with cosmological constant
• The global extension of local symmetries in general relativity
• The classification of the Ricci tensor in general relativity theory

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