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Starting with a subclass of the four-dimensional spaces possessing two commuting Killing vectors and a non-trivial Killing tensor, we fully integrate Einstein's vacuum equation with a cosmological constant. Although most of the solutions…

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We start a systematic investigation of possible isometries of the asymptotically de Sitter solutions to Einstein equations. We reformulate the Killing equation as conformal equations for the initial data at $\mathcal{I}^+$. This allows for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Wojciech Kamiński , Maciej Kolanowski , Jerzy Lewandowski

The most general form of non-static plane symmetric space-times is considered to study proper curvature collineations by using the rank of the 6X6 Riemann matrix and direct integration techniques. Studying proper curvature collineations in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Ghulam Shabbir , M. Ramzan

We analyze type I vacuum solutions admitting an isometry whose Killing 2--form is aligned with a principal bivector of the Weyl tensor, and we show that these solutions belong to a family of type I metrics which admit a group $G_3$ of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Joan J. Ferrando , Juan A. Sáez

The spacetime homogeneous G\"odel-type spacetimes which have four classes of metrics are studied according to their matter collineations. The obtained results are compared with Killing vectors and Ricci collineations. It is found that these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 U. Camci , M. Sharif

By applying the lightlike Eisenhart lift to several known examples of low-dimensional integrable systems admitting integrals of motion of higher-order in momenta, we obtain four- and higher-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes with irreducible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 G. W. Gibbons , T. Houri , D. Kubiznak , C. M. Warnick

An exhaustive list of four-dimensional $\Lambda$-vacuum spacetimes admitting a Killing vector whose self-dual Killing two-form ${\cal F}$ is null is obtained assuming that the self-dual Weyl tensor is proportional to the tensor product of…

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The general solution for non-rotating perfect-fluid spacetimes admitting one Killing vector and two conformal (non-isometric) Killing vectors spanning an abelian three-dimensional conformal algebra (C_3) acting on spacelike hypersurfaces is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Andreas Koutras , Marc Mars

A class of curves with special conformal properties (conformal curves) is studied on the Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. It is shown that initial data for the conformal curves can be prescribed so that the resulting congruence of curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Christian Lübbe , J. A. Valiente Kroon

This article explores the Conformal Ricci Collineations (CRCs) for the plane-symmetric static spacetime. The non-linear coupled CRC equations are solved to get the general form of conformal Ricci symmetries. In the non-degenerate case, it…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Ahmad T Ali

We study metric solutions of Einstein-anti-Maxwell theory admitting Killing spinors. The analogue of the IWP metric which admits a space-like Killing vector is found and is expressed in terms of a complex function satisfying the wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 W. A. Sabra

We considered the most general form of non-static cylindrically symmetric space-times for studying proper curvature symmetry by using the rank of the 6X6 Riemann matrix and direct integration techniques. Studying proper curvature symmetry…

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A study of conformally flat but non flat Bianchi type I and cylindrically symmetric static space-times according to proper projective symmetry is given by using some algebraic and direct integration techniques. It is shown that the special…

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By imposing natural geometrical and kinematical conditions on a conformal Killing vector in Bianchi I spacetime, we show that a class of axisymmetric metrics admits a conformal motion. This class contains new exact solutions of Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Roy Maartens , Conrad Mellin

A new class of conformal field theories is presented, where the background gravitational field is conformally flat. Conformally flat (CF) spacetimes enjoy conformal properties quite similar to the ones of flat spacetime. The conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Enrique Alvarez , Raquel Santos-Garcia

A study of proper conformal vector field in non conformally flat cylindrically symmetric static space-times is given by using direct integration technique. Using the above mentioned technique we have shown that a very special class of the…

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The second order Killing and conformal tensors are analyzed in terms of their spectral decomposition, and some properties of the eigenvalues and the eigenspaces are shown. When the tensor is of type I with only two different eigenvalues,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bartolomé Coll , Joan Josep Ferrando , Juan Antonio Sáez

We show that in dimension n>3 the class of simple conformally recurrent space-times coincides with the class of conformally recurrent pp-waves.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Carlo Alberto Mantica , Luca Guido Molinari

We provide conditions for a Riemannian manifold with a nontrivial closed affine conformal Killing vector field to be isometric to a Euclidean sphere or to the Euclidean space. Also, we formulate some triviality results for almost Ricci…

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