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The rings of SL(V) invariants of configurations of vectors and linear forms in a finite-dimensional complex vector space V were explicitly described by Hermann Weyl in the 1930s. We show that when V is 3-dimensional, each of these rings…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Sergey Fomin , Pavlo Pylyavskyy

We study the class of vacuum (Ricci flat) six-dimensional spacetimes admitting a non-degenerate multiple Weyl aligned null direction l, thus being of Weyl type II or more special. Subject to an additional assumption on the asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-26 Marcello Ortaggio

We study various mathematical aspects of the charged rotating black hole with two equal-magnitude angular momenta in five dimensions. We introduce a coordinate system that is regular on the horizon and in which Einstein-Maxwell equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Markus B. Fröb , Igor Khavkine , Tomáš Málek , Vojtěch Pravda

We study the class of six-dimensional $\Lambda$-vacuum spacetimes which admit a non-degenerate multiple Weyl aligned null direction l (thus being of Weyl type~II or more special) with a ``generic'' optical matrix. Subject to an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 David Kokoška , Marcello Ortaggio

A special class of (complex) para-Hermite Einstein spaces is analyzed. For this class of spaces the self-dual Weyl tensor is type-[D] in the Petrov-Penrose classification. The anti-self-dual Weyl tensor is algebraically degenerate,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Adam Chudecki

We consider weighted parallel spinors in Lorentzian Weyl geometry in arbitrary dimensions, choosing the weight such that the integrability condition for the existence of such a spinor, implies the geometry to be Einstein-Weyl. We then use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-16 P. Meessen , T. Ortín , A. Palomo-Lozano

Symmetries of geometrical and physical quantities in general relativity provide important information about the curvature structure of the spacetimes. Symmetries of the curvature and the Weyl tensors, known as curvature and Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 A. R. Kashif , K. Saifullah , G. Shabbir

The spinor-helicity formalism is an essential technique of the amplitudes community. We draw on this method to construct a scheme for classifying higher-dimensional spacetimes in the style of the four-dimensional Petrov classification and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Ricardo Monteiro , Isobel Nicholson , Donal O'Connell

The relationship between spinors and Clifford (or geometric) algebra has long been studied, but little consistency may be found between the various approaches. However, when spinors are defined to be elements of the even subalgebra of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew R. Francis , Arthur Kosowsky

We argue that the Weyl coordinates and the rod-structure employed to construct static axisymmetric solutions in higher dimensional Einstein gravity can be generalized to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. As a concrete application of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

The necessary and sufficient conditions for a type N vacuum solution (with cosmological constant) to admit a group of isometries of dimension $r$ are given in terms of the invariant concomitants of the Weyl tensor. This study requires…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Juan Antonio Sáez , Salvador Mengual , Joan Josep Ferrando

The objective of the paper is to investigate a sequential study of different generalizations of semisymmetric and pseudosymmetric manifolds with their proper existence by several spacetimes. In the literature of differential geometry, there…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Absos Ali Shaikh

We determine the leading order fall-off behaviour of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Einstein spacetimes (with and without a cosmological constant) as one approaches infinity along a congruence of null geodesics. The null congruence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Marcello Ortaggio , Alena Pravdová

We explore the Euclidean supersymmetric solutions admitting the self-dual gauge field in the framework of ${\cal N}=2$ minimal gauged supergravity in four dimensions. According to the classification scheme utilizing the spinorial geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 Masato Nozawa

We propose and develop a new method to classify orbits of the spin group ${\rm Spin}(2d)$ in the space of its semi-spinors. The idea is to consider spinors as being built as a linear combination of their pure constituents, imposing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Niren Bhoja , Kirill Krasnov

A new approach to the algebraic classification of second order symmetric tensors in 5-dimensional space-times is presented. The possible Segre types for a symmetric two-tensor are found. A set of canonical forms for each Segre type is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. S. Hall , M. J. Reboucas , J. Santos , A. F. F. Teixeira

There are a number of algebraic classifications of spacetimes in higher dimensions utilizing alignment theory, bivectors and discriminants. Previous work gave a set of necessary conditions in terms of discriminants for a spacetime to be of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-06 A. A. Coley , S. Hervik , M. N. Durkee , M. Godazgar

This text is dedicated to the real Killing equation on 3-dimensional Weyl manifolds. Any manifold admitting a real Killing spinor of weight 0 satisfies the conditions of a Gauduchon-Tod geometry. Conversely, any simply connected…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Volker Buchholz

Five-dimensional gauge and gravity theories are known to exhibit striking properties. D=5 is the lowest dimension where massive tensor states appear naturally, providing a testing ground for perturbative insights into six-dimensional tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

We study a class of higher dimensional warped Einstein spacetimes with one extra dimension. These were originally identified by Brinkmann as those Einstein spacetimes that can be mapped conformally on other Einstein spacetimes, and have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-08 Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova