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New varieties of Gowdy spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

Gowdy spacetimes are generalized to admit two commuting spatial "local" Killing vectors, and some new varieties of them are presented, which are all closely related to Thurston's geometries. Explicit spatial compactifications, as well as the boundary conditions for the metrics are given in a systematic way. A short comment on an implication to their dynamics toward the initial singularity is made.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9801088,
  title  = {New varieties of Gowdy spacetimes},
  author = {Masayuki Tanimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9801088},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages with no figure. A reference added, and typos corrected. To appear in J.Math.Phys