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On the prolongation structures of Petrov type III vacuum spacetime equations

Mathematical Physics 2011-09-23 v2 math.MP

Abstract

The universal covering symmetry algebra of the Robinson-Trautman equations of Petrov Type III is shown to include the infinite-dimensional affine Kac-Moody algebra A_1 as a prolongation algebra. This algebra has slower growth than the contragradient algebra K_2 obtained previously for this equation.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3478,
  title  = {On the prolongation structures of Petrov type III vacuum spacetime equations},
  author = {E. O. Ifidon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3478},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Problems with the classification of the infinite-dimensional algebra