Curvature invariants in type-III spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/10/321zbMATH Open0940.83003arXivgr-qc/9906121OpenAlexW4230138713MaRDI QIDQ4935682FDOQ4935682

V. Pravda

Publication date: 26 July 2000

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

Abstract: The results of paper [1] are generalized for vacuum type-III solutions with, in general, a non-vanishing cosmological constant Lambda. It is shown that all curvature invariants containing derivatives of the Weyl tensor vanish if a type-III spacetime admits a non-expanding and non-twisting null geodesic congruence. A non-vanishing curvature invariant containing first derivatives of the Weyl tensor is found in the case of type-III spacetime with expansion or twist.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906121

zbMATH Keywords

curvature invariantsNewman-Penrose formalismspinor calculustype-III vacuum spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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