Twisting type-N vacuum fields with a group H 2

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/21/314MaRDI QIDQ4528056zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. J. Chinea, Francisco Navarro-Lérida

Publication date 5 July 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0010026

zbMATH Keywords

twisting raysvacuum Einstein equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

Abstract: We derive the equations corresponding to twisting type-N vacuum gravitational fields with one Killing vector and one homothetic Killing vector by using the same approach as that developed by one of us in order to treat the case with two non-commuting Killing vectors. We study the case when the homothetic parameter $phi$ takes the value -1, which is shown to admit a reduction to a third-order real ordinary differential equation for this problem, similar to that previously obtained by one of us when two Killing vectors are present.

Review text

The paper considers the problem of finding exact solutions of vacuum Einstein equations with twisting rays, which have physical interest as models for asymptotic gravitational radiation. The state of the art implies that it is convenient to consider symmetries in order to simplify the equations. The symmetries used apply to a homothetic Killing vector field \(h\) and a Killing vector field \(e\) constituting a symmetric group \(H\) with commutation relations \[ [e,h] = le +mh ,\qquad l \text{ and } m \text{ constants}. \] This work generalizes a previous paper by one of the authors in 1988 where the vector fields were both Killing vectors and a similar third order real differential equation for this problem is derived.

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