Vacuum solutions which cannot be written in diagonal form

DOI10.1023/A:1027393421715MaRDI QIDQ1420831zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabrizio Canfora, Hans-Jürgen Schmidt

Publication date 23 January 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0305107

zbMATH Keywords

diagonalizationEinstein field equationssymmetriesvacuum solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: A vacuum solution of the Einstein gravitational field equation is given that follows from a general ansatz but fails to follow from it if a certain symmetric matrix is assumed to be in diagonal form from the beginning.

Review text

The purpose of the paper is to show that important examples exist where the statement ``every symmetric matrix can be brought into diagonal form by a suitable rotation lead to incorrect results. The authors give a class of solutions where the statement ``in the case of metric depending only on one coordinate the diagonalization can always be achieved is not correct.

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