Segre decomposition of spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/4/008MaRDI QIDQ4699920zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José M. M. Senovilla, Raül Vera

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9902035

zbMATH Keywords

energy-momentum tensorexact solutionPetrov typesSegre typesspacetime classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: Following a recent work in which it is shown that a spacetime admitting Lie-group actions may be disjointly decomposed into a a closed subset with no interior plus a dense finite union of open sets in each of which the character and dimension of the group orbits as well as the Petrov type are constant, the aim of this work is to include the Segre types of the Ricci tensor (and hence of the Einstein tensor) into the decomposition. We also show how this type of decomposition can be carried out for any type of property of the spacetime depending on the existence of a continuous endomorphism.

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