Spacetimes of Weyl and Ricci type N in higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115006MaRDI QIDQ5741274zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. Kuchynka, A. Pravdová

Publication date 22 July 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03562

zbMATH Keywords

Goldberg-Sachs theoremhigher dimensionsRicci type NWeyl type N

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) 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) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We study the geometrical properties of null congruences generated by an aligned null direction of the Weyl tensor (WAND) in spacetimes of the Weyl and Ricci type N (possibly with a non-vanishing cosmological constant) in an arbitrary dimension. We prove that a type N Ricci tensor and a type III or N Weyl tensor have to be aligned. In such spacetimes, the multiple WAND has to be geodetic. For spacetimes with type N aligned Weyl and Ricci tensors, the canonical form of the optical matrix in the twisting and non-twisting case is derived and the dependence of the Weyl and the Ricci tensors and Ricci rotation coefficients on the affine parameter of the geodetic null congruence generated by the WAND is obtained.

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