On algebraically special vacuum spacetimes in five dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/5/055004MaRDI QIDQ4915032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Harvey S. Reall, Alexander A. H. Graham, Carl Turner

Publication date 16 April 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5957

zbMATH Keywords

algebraically special vacuum spacetimesKaluza-Kleinrepeated principal null directionRobinson-TrautmanSchwarzschildWeyl aligned null direction (WAND)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: Vacuum solutions admitting a hypersurface-orthogonal repeated principal null direction are an important class of 4d algebraically special spacetimes. We investigate the 5d analogues of such solutions: vacuum spacetimes admitting a hypersurface-orthogonal multiple Weyl aligned null direction (WAND). Such spacetimes fall into 4 families determined by the rank of the 3X3 matrix that defines the expansion and shear of the multiple WAND. The rank 3 and rank 0 cases have been studied previously. We investigate the 2 remaining families. We show how to define coordinates which lead to a considerable simplification of the Einstein equation with cosmological constant. The rank 2 case gives warped product and Kaluza-Klein versions of the 4d Robinson-Trautman solutions as well as some new solutions. The rank 1 case gives product, or analytically continued Schwarzschild, spacetimes.

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