Type D Einstein spacetimes in higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/24/17/009zbMATH Open1128.83012arXiv0704.0435OpenAlexW2033591174MaRDI QIDQ5310001FDOQ5310001

Authors: V. Pravda, A. Pravdová, Marcello Ortaggio 

Publication date: 5 October 2007

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

Abstract: We show that all static spacetimes in higher dimensions are of Weyl types G, I_i, D or O. This applies also to stationary spacetimes if additional conditions are fulfilled, as for most known black hole/ring solutions. (The conclusions change when the Killing generator becomes null, such as at Killing horizons.) Next we demonstrate that the same Weyl types characterize warped product spacetimes with a one-dimensional Lorentzian (timelike) factor, whereas warped spacetimes with a two-dimensional Lorentzian factor are restricted to the types D or O. By exploring the Bianchi identities, we then analyze the simplest non-trivial case from the above classes - type D vacuum spacetimes, possibly with a cosmological constant, dropping, however, the assumptions that the spacetime is static, stationary or warped. It is shown that for ``generic type D vacuum spacetimes the corresponding principal null directions are geodetic in any dimension (this applies also to type II spacetimes). For n>=5, however, there may exist particular cases of type D spacetimes which admit non-geodetic multiple principal null directions and we present such examples in any n>=7. Further studies are restricted to five dimensions, where the type D Weyl tensor is described by a 3x3 matrix Phi_{ij}. In the case with ``twistfree (A_{ij}=0) principal null geodesics we show that in a ``generic case Phi_{ij} is symmetric and eigenvectors of Phi_{ij} coincide with those of the expansion matrix S_{ij}, providing us with three preferred spacelike directions of the spacetime. Similar results are also obtained when relaxing the twistfree condition and assuming instead that Phi_{ij} is symmetric. The n=5 Myers-Perry black hole and Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics in arbitrary dimension are briefly studied as specific examples of type D vacuum spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0435

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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