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Obtaining a class of Type N pure radiation metrics using invariant operators

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We develop further the integration procedure in the generalised invariant formalism, and demonstrate its efficiency by obtaining a class of Petrov type N pure radiation metrics without any explicit integration, and with comparatively little detailed calculations. The method is similar to the one exploited by Edgar and Vickers when deriving the general conformally flat pure radiation metric. A major addition to the technique is the introduction of non-intrinsic elements in generalised invariant formalism, which can be exploited to keep calculations manageable.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0409008,
  title  = {Obtaining a class of Type N pure radiation metrics using invariant operators},
  author = {M. P. Machado Ramos and S. Brian Edgar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0409008},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

This work was presented in July 2004, in the Gr17 meeting held in Dublin-Ireland