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Twisting type-N vacuum fields with a group $H_2$

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We derive the equations corresponding to twisting type-N vacuum gravitational fields with one Killing vector and one homothetic Killing vector by using the same approach as that developed by one of us in order to treat the case with two non-commuting Killing vectors. We study the case when the homothetic parameter ϕ\phi takes the value -1, which is shown to admit a reduction to a third-order real ordinary differential equation for this problem, similar to that previously obtained by one of us when two Killing vectors are present.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0010026,
  title  = {Twisting type-N vacuum fields with a group $H_2$},
  author = {F. J. Chinea and F. Navarro-Lerida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0010026},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 11 pages. To be published in Classical and Quantum Gravity