Affine collineations in general relativity and their fixed point structure

DOI10.1063/1.530720zbMath0818.53023MaRDI QIDQ4327279

J. R. Pulham, David J. Low, Graham S. Hall

Publication date: 5 April 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.530720

zbMATH Keywords

homothetic symmetry; zeros of affine vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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