ISOMETRIES IN HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL CCNV SPACETIMES

DOI10.1142/S021988780900359XMaRDI QIDQ3636443zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David McNutt, Alan Coley, Nicos Pelavas

Publication date 30 June 2009

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7364

zbMATH Keywords

isometryKilling vector fieldcurvature invariantsKundt spacetimenull vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We study the class of higher-dimensional Kundt metrics admitting a covariantly constant null vector, known as CCNV spacetimes. We pay particular attention to those CCNV spacetimes with constant (polynomial) curvature invariants (CSI). We investigate the existence of an additional isometry in CCNV spacetimes, by studying the Killing equations for the general form of the CCNV metric. In particular, we list all CCNV spacetimes allowing an additional non-spacelike isometry for all values of the lightcone coordinate v, which are of interest due to the invariance of the metric under a translation in v. As an application we use our results to find all CSI CCNV spacetimes with an additional isometry as well as the subset of these spacetimes in which the isometry is non-spacelike for all values v.

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