Asymptotically flat space-times have no conformal Killing fields

DOI10.1063/1.527805zbMath0614.53048OpenAlexW2012535154MaRDI QIDQ4721182

David Garfinkle

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527805

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl tensorBondi energyKilling fieldgroups of motionsasymptotically flat spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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Cites Work

• Homothetic and conformal symmetries of solutions to Einstein's equations
• Isometries compatible with asymptotic flatness at null infinity: A complete description
• Null infinity and Killing fields