A family of heavenly metrics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/3/035021zbMATH Open1285.83011arXivgr-qc/0105088OpenAlexW2129254163MaRDI QIDQ5407879FDOQ5407879

Authors: Y. Nutku, Mikhail B. Sheftel 

Publication date: 8 April 2014

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

Abstract: This is a corrected and essentially extended version of the previous preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0105088 v4 (2002) by Y. Nutku and M. Sheftel containing new results. It is being published now in honor of Y. Nutku's memory. All responsibility for the additions and changes must be attributed to M. Sheftel. We present new anti-self-dual exact solutions of the Einstein field equations with Euclidean and neutral (ultra-hyperbolic) signatures that admit only one rotational Killing vector. Such solutions of the Einstein field equations are determined by non-invariant solutions of Boyer-Finley ($BF$) equation. For the case of Euclidean signature such a solution of the $BF$ equation was first constructed by Calderbank and Tod. Two years later, Martina, Sheftel and Winternitz applied the method of group foliation to the Boyer-Finley equation and reproduced the Calderbank-Tod solution together with new solutions for the neutral signature. In the case of Euclidean signature we obtain new metrics which asymptotically locally look like a flat space and have a non-removable singular point at the origin. In the case of ultra-hyperbolic signature there exist three inequivalent forms of metric. Only one of these can be obtained by analytic continuation from the Calderbank-Tod solution whereas the other two are new.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0105088

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

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