Integration in the GHP formalism. II: An operator approach for spacetimes with Killing vectors, with applications to twisting type N-spaces

DOI10.1023/A:1010200113770zbMATH Open0868.53060arXivgr-qc/9605006MaRDI QIDQ674904FDOQ674904

Authors: S. Brian Edgar, Garry Ludwig 

Publication date: 6 March 1997

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Held has proposed a coordinate- and gauge-free integration procedure within the GHP formalism built around four functionally independent zero-weighted scalars constructed from the spin coefficients and the Riemann tensor components. Unfortunately, a spacetime with Killing vectors will be unable to supply the full quota of four scalars of this type. However, for such a spacetime additional scalars are supplied by the components of the Killing vectors; by using these alongside the spin coefficients and the Riemann tensor components we have the possibility of constructing the full quota of four functionally independent zero-weighted scalars, and of exploiting Held's procedure. As an illustration we investigate the vacuum Type N spaces admitting a Killing vector and a homothetic Killing vector. In a direct manner, we reduce the problem to a pair of ordinary differential operator `master equations', making use of a new zero-weighted GHP operator. By first rewriting the master equations as a closed set of complex first order equations, we reduce the problem to one real third order operator differential equation for a complex function of a real variable --- but with still the freedom to choose explicitly our fourth coordinate. An alternative, more algorithmic approach, using a closed chain of real first order equations for real functions, reduces the problem to the same order, but in a more natural and much more concise form. It is also outlined how the various other third order differential equations, which have been derived previously by other workers on this problem, can be deduced from our master equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9605006

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zbMATH Keywords

Geroch-Held-Penrose formalismvacuum type \(N\) spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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