On homothetic Killing vectors in stationary axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes

DOI10.1142/S0219887821501218MaRDI QIDQ6205073zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Abbas Mohamed Sherif, Peter K. S. Dunsby, Rituparno Goswami, Sunil D. Maharaj

Publication date 11 April 2024

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15549

zbMATH Keywords

homothetic Killing vectorsstationary axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) 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)

Abstract: In this paper we consider homothetic Killing vectors in the class of stationary axisymmetric vacuum (SAV) spacetimes, where the components of the vectors are functions of the time and radial coordinates. In this case the component of any homothetic Killing vector along the $z$ direction must be constant. Firstly, it is shown that either the component along the radial direction is constant or we have the proportionality $g_{phiphi}propto{g}_{hoho}$, where $g_{phiphi}>0$. In both cases, complete analyses are carried out and the general forms of the homothetic Killing vectors are determined. The associated conformal factors are also obtained. The case of vanishing twist in the metric, i.e., $omega=0$ is considered and the complete forms of the homothetic Killing vectors are determined, as well as the associated conformal factors.

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