Self-dual gravity revisited

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/016zbMATH Open0859.53062arXivhep-th/9409160OpenAlexW3125066779MaRDI QIDQ4894747FDOQ4894747

Authors: Chandrashekar Devchand, V. I. Ogievetsky 

Publication date: 7 October 1996

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

Abstract: Reconsidering the harmonic space description of the self-dual Einstein equations, we streamline the proof that all self-dual pure gravitational fields allow a local description in terms of an unconstrained analytic prepotential in harmonic space. Our formulation yields a simple recipe for constructing self-dual metrics starting from any explicit choice of such prepotential; and we illustrate the procedure by producing a metric related to the Taub-NUT solution from the simplest monomial choice of prepotential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409160

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zbMATH Keywords

self-dual metricsself-dual Einstein equationsTaub-NUT solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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