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The Petrov type of the BMPV metric

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that the BMPV metric has Petrov type 22. This means that the BMPV metric is less algebraically special than the five-dimensional Schwarzschild metric, which has Petrov type \underline{22}.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0401033,
  title  = {The Petrov type of the BMPV metric},
  author = {Pieter-Jan De Smet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0401033},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures