Twisting algebraically special solutions in five dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/9/095002MaRDI QIDQ2814632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas, Mahdi Godazgar, Harvey S. Reall

Publication date 22 June 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02238, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254533

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic classificationEinstein solutionshigher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) 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 determine the general form of the solutions of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations with cosmological constant for which (i) the Weyl tensor is everywhere type II or more special in the null alignment classification of Coley et al., and (ii) the $3imes3$ matrix encoding the expansion, shear and twist of the aligned null direction has rank 2. The dependence of the solution on 2 coordinates is determined explicitly, so the Einstein equation reduces to PDEs in the 3 remaining coordinates, just as for four-dimensional algebraically special solutions. The solutions fall into several families. One of these consists of warped products of four-dimensional algebraically special solutions. The others are new.

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