Formalism for spacetimes with a homothety

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/2/306MaRDI QIDQ4532764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John D. Steele

Publication date 11 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/fc504f5a261c4f6dc7369d1eb5b916f5a3a5816c

zbMATH Keywords

homothetyKilling equationsRobinson-Trautman metricsisometrics in vacuum spacetimesKundt type \(N\) metricssource-free Maxwell's equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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