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We work in both the complex and in the para-complex categories and examine (para)-K\"ahler Weyl structures in both the geometric and in the algebraic settings. The higher dimensional setting is quite restrictive. We show that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-04 P. Gilkey , S. Nikcevic

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

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

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 determine the space of algebraic pseudo-Hermitian K\"ahler-Weyl curvature tensors and the space of para-Hermitian K\"ahler-Weyl curvature tensors in dimension 4 and show that every algebraic possibility is geometrically realizable. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-22 P. Gilkey , S. Nikcevic

The Petrov classification is an important algebraic classification for the Weyl tensor valid in 4-dimensional space-times. In this thesis such classification is generalized to manifolds of arbitrary dimension and signature. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-19 Carlos Batista

It is shown that Einstein-Weyl (EW) equations in 2+1 dimensions contain the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (dKP) equation as a special case: If an EW structure admits a constant weighted vector then it is locally given by $h=d y^2-4d…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Maciej Dunajski , Lionel J. Mason , Paul Tod

For Petrov D vacuum spaces, two simple identities are rederived and some new identities are obtained, in a manageable form, by a systematic and transparent analysis using the GHP formalism. This gives a complete involutive set of tables for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-19 S. Brian Edgar , Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , José M. Martín-García

We give a classification of the type D spacetimes based on the invariant differential properties of the Weyl principal structure. Our classification is established using tensorial invariants of the Weyl tensor and, consequently, besides its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. J. Ferrando , J. A. Sáez

Any pseudo-Hermitian or para-Hermitian manifold of dimension 4 admits a unique Kaehler-Weyl structure; this structure is locally conformally Kaehler if and only if the alternating Ricci tensor vanishes. The alternating Ricci tensor takes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-20 M. Brozos-Vazquez , E. Garcia-Rio , P. Gilkey , R. Vazquez-Lorenzo

A spinorial approach to 6-dimensional differential geometry is constructed and used to analyze tensor fields of low rank, with special attention to the Weyl tensor. We perform a study similar to the 4-dimensional case, making full use of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-06 Carlos Batista , Bruno Carneiro da Cunha

We perform a quantum probing of colliding plane-wave space-times. In particular, we consider the Khan-Penrose and the Ferrari-Ib\'a\~nez solutions, which admit a strong and a weak singularity after the two waves collide. While we find that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-04 Ivo Sachs , Marc Schneider

Einstein spacetimes in 5d that are of genuine type II in the null alignment classification are considered. It is shown that the unique geodesic multiple Weyl aligned null direction (mWAND) cannot have an optical matrix of rank 1 or 3. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-10 Lode Wylleman

We introduce a new family of operators in 4-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with a non-vanishing Weyl scalar (non-degenerate spaces) that keep the conformal covariance of \emph{conformally covariant tensor concomitants}. A…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Alfonso García-Parrado

We classify super-symmetric solutions of the minimal $N=2$ gauged Euclidean supergravity in four dimensions. The solutions with anti-self-dual Maxwell field give rise to anti-self-dual Einstein metrics given in terms of solutions to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Maciej Dunajski , Jan Gutowski , Wafic Sabra , Paul Tod

We show that a class of solutions of minimal supergravity in five dimensions is given by lifts of three--dimensional Einstein--Weyl structures of hyper-CR type. We characterise this class as most general near--horizon limits of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Maciej Dunajski , Jan Gutowski , Wafic Sabra

We study the issue of algebraic classification of the Weyl curvature tensor, with a particular focus on numerical relativity simulations. The spacetimes of interest in this context, binary black hole mergers, and the ringdowns that follow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert Owen

Irreducible bilinear tensorial concomitants of an arbitrary complex antisymmetric valence-2 tensor are derived in four-dimensional spacetime. In addition these bilinear concomitants are symmetric (or antisymmetric), self-dual (or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. D. Carozzi , J. E. S. Bergman

We study the Jones and Tod correspondence between selfdual conformal 4-manifolds with a conformal vector field and abelian monopoles on Einstein-Weyl 3-manifolds, and prove that invariant complex structures correspond to shear-free geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 David M. J. Calderbank , H. Pedersen

Listing has recently extended results of Kozameh, Newman and Tod for four-dimensional spacetimes and presented a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for a metric to be locally conformally equivalent to an Einstein metric in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 S. Brian Edgar