Levi-Civita spacetimes in multidimensional theories
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-08-13 v1
Abstract
We obtain the most general static cylindrically symmetric vacuum solutions of the Einstein field equations in dimensions. Under the assumption of separation of variables, we construct a family of Levi-Civita-Kasner vacuum solutions in . We discuss the dimensional reduction of the static solutions. Depending on the reduction procedure, they can be interpreted either as a scalar-vacuum generalization of Levi-Civita spacetimes, or as the effective 4D vacuum spacetime outside of an idealized string in braneworld theory.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0904.3596,
title = {Levi-Civita spacetimes in multidimensional theories},
author = {J. Ponce de Leon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3596},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages. Accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett. A (MPLA)