Algebraic classification of higher dimensional spacetimes based on null alignment

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/1/013001zbMath1261.83004arXiv1211.7289OpenAlexW2171016956MaRDI QIDQ4911270

Alena Pravdová, Vojtech Pravda, Marcello Ortaggio

Publication date: 14 March 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7289

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl tensor warped products quadratic gravity algebraic classification Lorentzian geometries Kerr-Schild ansatz Geroch-Held-Penrose Robinson-Trautman spacetime null alignment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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