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Symmetries of asymptotically flat axisymmetric spacetimes with null dust

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Symmetries of spacetimes with null dust field as a source compatible with asymptotic flatness are studied by using the Bondi-Sachs-van der Burg formalism. It is shown that in an axially symmetric spacetime with null dust field in which at least locally a smooth null infinity in the sense of Penrose exists, the only allowable additional Killing vector forming with the axial one a two-dimensional Lie algebra (the axial and the additional Killing vector are not assumed to be hypersurface orthogonal) is a supertranslational Killing vector and the gravitational field is then non-radiative (the Weyl tensor has a non-radiative character).

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0002064,
  title  = {Symmetries of asymptotically flat axisymmetric spacetimes with null dust},
  author = {U. von der Goenna and A. Pravdova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0002064},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, RevTeX, accepted for publication in J. Math. Phys