Symmetries of the self-dual Einstein equations. I. The infinite-dimensional symmetry group and its low-dimensional subgroups

DOI10.1063/1.528379zbMath0673.53038OpenAlexW2016131976MaRDI QIDQ3827208

Charles P. Boyer, Pavel Winternitz

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528379

zbMATH Keywords

self-dual Einstein spacesPlebanski's potential equationsymmetry reduced solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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• Invariants of real low dimension Lie algebras
• Continuous subgroups of the fundamental groups of physics. III. The de Sitter groups

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