Symmetry analysis of radiative spacetimes with a null isotropy using GHP formalism

DOI10.1007/S10714-014-1797-9zbMATH Open1305.83029arXiv1406.7864OpenAlexW2088311529MaRDI QIDQ481741FDOQ481741

Authors: Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg 

Publication date: 12 December 2014

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A complete and simple invariant classification of the conformally flat pure radiation metrics with a negative cosmological constant that were obtained by integration using the generalised invariant formalism is presented. We show equivalence between these metrics and the corresponding type O subclass of the more general spacetime studied by Siklos. The classification procedure indicates that the metrics possess a one degree of null isotropy freedom which has very interesting repercussions in the symmetry analysis. The Killing and homothetic vector analysis in GHP formalism is then generalised to this case were there is only one null direction defined geometrically. We determine the existing Killing vectors for the different subclasses that arise in the classification and compare these results to those obtained in the symmetry analysis performed by Siklos for a larger class of metrics with Ricci tensor representing a pure radiation field and a negative cosmological constant. It is also shown that there are no homothetic Killing vectors present.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7864

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesgeneralised invariant formalismKarlhede classificationpure radiation spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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