The separability of Maxwell’s equations in type-D backgrounds

DOI10.1063/1.527993zbMath0664.58053OpenAlexW2137053464MaRDI QIDQ3814459

Gerardo F. Torres del Castillo

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527993

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic fieldMaxwell equationseigensolutionstwo-index Killing spinorPlebański-Demiański metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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Black holes, hidden symmetries, and complete integrability ⋮ Killing spinors and separability of Maxwell’s equations ⋮ Symmetry operators and separation of variables for spin-wave equations in oblate spheroidal coordinates ⋮ The Teukolsky–Starobinsky identities in type D vacuum backgrounds with cosmological constant ⋮ Gravitational perturbations of type-D vacuum space–times with cosmological constant ⋮ Killing spinors and separability of Rarita–Schwinger’s equation in type {2,2} backgrounds ⋮ Rarita–Schwinger fields in algebraically special vacuum space-times ⋮ Debye potentials for Maxwell and Dirac fields from a generalization of the Killing–Yano equation ⋮ Spin-3/2 perturbations of algebraically special solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations ⋮ The method of adjoint operators and a symmetry operator for the Maxwell equations in type-D vacuum backgrounds ⋮ Solution of the Dirac equation on the Bertotti-Robinson metric

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