Killing spinors and separability of Maxwell’s equations

DOI10.1063/1.528611zbMath0697.53070OpenAlexW2120485832MaRDI QIDQ3473780

Gerardo F. Torres del Castillo

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528611

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell equationsKilling spinorseparation constantstype D vacuum metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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