Petrov D vacuum spaces revisited: identities and invariant classification

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/10/105022zbMATH Open1166.83015arXiv0812.1232OpenAlexW2073306564MaRDI QIDQ3631352FDOQ3631352

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Publication date: 9 June 2009

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

Abstract: For Petrov D vacuum spaces, two simple identities are rederived and some new identities are obtained, in a manageable form, by a systematic and transparent analysis using the GHP formalism. This gives a complete involutive set of tables for the four GHP derivatives on each of the four GHP spin coefficients and the one Weyl tensor component. It follows directly from these results that the theoretical upper bound on the order of covariant differentiation of the Riemann tensor required for a Karlhede classification of these spaces is reduced to two.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1232

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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