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Aligned electric and magnetic Weyl fields

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We analyze the spacetimes admitting a direction for which the relative electric and magnetic Weyl fields are aligned. We give an invariant characterization of these metrics and study the properties of its Debever null vectors. The directions 'observing' aligned electric and magnetic Weyl fields are obtained for every Petrov type. The results on the no existence of purely magnetic solutions are extended to the wider class having homothetic electric and magnetic Weyl fields.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0311089,
  title  = {Aligned electric and magnetic Weyl fields},
  author = {Joan Josep Ferrando Juan Antonio Sáez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0311089},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages

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