Orthogonal transitivity, invertibility, and null geodesic separability in type D electrovac solutions of Einstein’s field equations with cosmological constant

DOI10.1063/1.525116zbMath0467.53016OpenAlexW1488344869WikidataQ126027930 ScholiaQ126027930MaRDI QIDQ3920262

R. Debever, Raymond G. Mclenaghan

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525116

zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupWeyl tensorEinstein-Maxwell equationsNewman-Penrose formalismspace-timesPetrov type D

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21)

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