Sharp version of the Goldberg-Sachs theorem

DOI10.1007/S10231-010-0151-4zbMATH Open1232.83013arXiv0911.3364OpenAlexW2069599511MaRDI QIDQ540730FDOQ540730

Authors: Rod Gover, Clyde Denson Hill, Pawel Nurowski 

Publication date: 3 June 2011

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We reexamine from first principles the classical Goldberg-Sachs theorem from General Relativity. We cast it into the form valid for complex metrics, as well as real metrics of any signature. We obtain the sharpest conditions on the derivatives of the curvature that are sufficient for the implication (integrability of a field of alpha planes)$Rightarrow$(algebraic degeneracy of the Weyl tensor). With every integrable field of alpha planes we associate a natural connection, in terms of which these conditions have a very simple form.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3364

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zbMATH Keywords

Goldberg-Sachs theoremalgebraically special fieldscomplex metricsNewman-Penrose formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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