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We present a generalized Ernst-type framework for stationary, axisymmetric spacetimes in which a scalar field is coupled to the electrodynamic field, with a particular focus on the ModMax theory. Our approach relies on the Weyl…

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We present a large family of twisting and expanding solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of algebraic type D, for which the two double principal null directions (PNDs) of the Weyl tensor are not aligned with the null eigendirections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Hryhorii Ovcharenko , Jiří Podolský

We present a new class of expanding and twisting solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of algebraic type D, where the null eigendirections of the Faraday tensor are not aligned with PNDs of the Weyl tensor. After deriving this novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Hryhorii Ovcharenko , Jiri Podolsky

We demonstrate the uniqueness of the spacetimes recently found by us in [H. Ovcharenko and J. Podolsky, Phys. Rev. D 112 (2025) 064076]. First, we prove that the conformal-to-Carter metric ansatz we used therein is the only possible for…

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We establish the existence of a family of static, spherically symmetric spacetimes that are solutions of the Einstein Field Equations of General Relativity coupled to the electric field of a static point charge obeying the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Erik Amorim

We introduce a general algebraic decomposition of Riemann-like and Weyl-like tensors with respect to a non-null vector $u$. We derive Gauss, Codazzi and Ricci-type identities for the Weyl tensor, that allow to relate the components of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Marc Mars , Carlos Peón-Nieto

We obtain a class of magnetically charged solutions in 2+1 dimensional Einstein - Power - Maxwell theory. In the linear Maxwell limit, such horizonless solutions are known to exist. We show that in 3D geometry, black hole solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , O. Gurtug , M. Halilsoy , O. Unver

A classical question in general relativity is about the classification of regular static black hole solutions of the static Einstein-Maxwell equations (or electrovacuum system). In this paper, we prove some classification results for an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Maria Andrade , Benedito Leandro , Róbson Lousa

An anti-de Sitter background four-dimensional type N solution of the Einstein's field equations, is presented. The matter-energy content pure radiation field satisfies the null energy condition (NEC), and the metric is free-from curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-22 Faizuddin Ahmed

We study null alignment properties of Weyl tensors related via Kaluza$\unicode{x2013}$Klein reduction of vacuum spacetimes by one spatial Killing direction. Kaluza$\unicode{x2013}$Klein reduction is a method that relates spacetimes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-19 Tomáš Tintěra

We consider a general class of four-dimensional geometries admitting a null vector field that has no twist and no shear but has an arbitrary expansion. We explicitly present the Petrov classification of such Robinson-Trautman (and Kundt)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-08 Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc

In this paper we consider an Einstein-type equation which generalizes important geometric equations, like static and critical point equations. We prove that a complete Einstein-type manifold with fourth-order divergence-free Weyl tensor and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Benedito Leandro

We construct two new classes of spacetimes generated by spinning and traveling magnetic sources in $(n+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity with Liouville-type potential. These solutions are neither asymptotically flat nor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Sheykhi , M. H. Dehghani , N. Riazi

We present and analyze exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations in higher dimensions which form a large subclass of the Kundt family of spacetimes. We assume that the cosmological constant may be nonvanishing, and the matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-26 Pavel Krtous , Jiri Podolsky , Andrei Zelnikov , Hedvika Kadlecova

Vacuum spacetimes admitting a non-twisting geodetic multiple Weyl aligned null direction (WAND) are analyzed in arbitrary dimension using recently developed higher-dimensional Newman-Penrose (NP) formalism. We determine dependence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Alena Pravdova , Vojtech Pravda

We present new exact solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills system. The solutions are described by a null Yang-Mills field in a Kundt spacetime. They generalize a previously known solution for a metric of $pp$ wave type. The solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Fuster

In the present article we find a new class of solutions of Einstein's field equations. It describes stationary, cylindrically symmetric spacetimes with closed timelike geodesics everywhere outside the symmetry axis. These spacetimes contain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-20 Oyvind Gron , Steinar Johannesen

We find and analyse solutions of Einstein's equations in arbitrary d dimensions and in the presence of a scalar field with a Liouville potential coupled to a Maxwell field. We consider spacetimes of cylindrical symmetry or again subspaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-29 Christos Charmousis , Blaise Goutéraux , Jiro Soda

We investigate a general metric of the Kundt class of spacetimes in higher dimensions. Geometrically, it admits a non-twisting, non-shearing and non-expanding geodesic null congruence. We calculate all components of the curvature and Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-22 Jiri Podolsky , Martin Zofka