Vacuum spacetimes with a spacelike, hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector: reduced equations in a canonical frame

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/24/005zbMATH Open1042.83021arXivgr-qc/0307121OpenAlexW2012542283MaRDI QIDQ4453753FDOQ4453753

Sotirios Bonanos

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Newman-Penrose equations for spacetimes having one spacelike Killing vector are reduced -- in a geometrically defined "canonical frame -- to a minimal set, and its differential structure is studied. Expressions for the frame vectors in an arbitrary coordinate basis are given, and coordinate-independent choices of the metric functions are suggested which make the components of the Ricci tensor in the direction of the Killing vector vanish.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307121

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci tensorPapapetrou fieldcanonical framemetric functionsNewman-Penrose equationsgravitational principal null directionsspacelike hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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