Spacetime Ehlers group: Transformation law for the Weyl tensor

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/4/311MaRDI QIDQ2715862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Mars

Publication date 29 May 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0101020

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein vacuum field equationsKerr-NUT metricKilling vectorstationary spacetimesWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The spacetime Ehlers group, which is a symmetry of the Einstein vacuum field equations for strictly stationary spacetimes, is defined and analyzed in a purely spacetime context (without invoking the projection formalism). In this setting, the Ehlers group finds its natural description within an infinite dimensional group of transformations that maps Lorentz metrics into Lorentz metrics and which may be of independent interest. The Ehlers group is shown to be well defined independently of the causal character of the Killing vector (which may become null on arbitrary regions). We analyze which global conditions are required on the spacetime for the existence of the Ehlers group. The transformation law for the Weyl tensor under Ehlers transformations is explicitly obtained. This allows us to study where, and under which circumstances, curvature singularities in the transformed spacetime will arise. The results of the paper are applied to obtain a local characterization of the Kerr-NUT metric.

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