Spacetimes with a preferred null direction and a two-dimensional group of isometries: the null dust case

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/4/3/018zbMath0615.53066MaRDI QIDQ4722794

Charalampos A. Kolassis, Nilton O. Santos

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/4/3/018

zbMATH Keywords

group of isometries; Einstein equations; null dust; Killing field; prefered null direction; transitivity surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C20: Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

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

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