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Type I vacuum solutions with aligned Papapetrou fields: an intrinsic characterization

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

We show that Petrov type I vacuum solutions admitting a Killing vector whose Papapetrou field is aligned with a principal bivector of the Weyl tensor are the Kasner and Taub metrics, their counterpart with timelike orbits and their associated windmill-like solutions, as well as the Petrov homogeneous vacuum solution. We recover all these metrics by using an integration method based on an invariant classification which allows us to characterize every solution. In this way we obtain an intrinsic and explicit algorithm to identify them.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0310070,
  title  = {Type I vacuum solutions with aligned Papapetrou fields: an intrinsic characterization},
  author = {Joan Josep Ferrando and Juan Antonio Sáez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0310070},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages; v2: added new section, references and table

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