Vacuum Kundt waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/5/055010MaRDI QIDQ4915039zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David McNutt, Robert Milson, Alan Coley

Publication date 16 April 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5027

zbMATH Keywords

invariant classificationKarlhede algorithmvacuum Kundt waves

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) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We discuss the invariant classification of vacuum Kundt waves using the Cartan-Karlhede algorithm, and the upper bound on the number of iterations of the Karlhede algorithm to classify the vacuum Kundt waves. By choosing a particular coordinate system we partially construct the canonical coframe used in the classification to study the functional dependence of the invariants arising at each iteration of the algorithm. We provide a new upper bound $qleq4$ and show this bound is sharp by analyzing the subclass of Kundt waves with invariant count beginning with (0,1,...) to show that the class with invariant count $(0,1,3,4,4)$ exists. This class of vacuum Kundt waves is shown to be unique as the only set of metrics requiring the fourth covariant derivatives of the curvature. We conclude with an invariant classification of the vacuum Kundt waves using a suite of invariants.

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