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We discuss the Kaluza-Klein reduction of spaces with (anti-)self-dual Weyl tensor and point out the emergence of the Einstein-Weyl equations for the reduction from four to three dimensions. As a byproduct we get a simple expression for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Grumiller , R. Jackiw

We transcribe into the framework of the torsionful version of the {\epsilon}-formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden the world definition of the Weyl tensor for a curved spacetime that occurs in the realm of Einstein-Cartan's theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 J. G. Cardoso

We show that conformally compact, globally hyperbolic, Lorentzian Einstein-Weyl 3-manifolds are in natural one-to-one correspondence with orientation-reversing diffeomorphisms of the 2-sphere. The proof hinges on a holomorphic-disk analog…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-25 Claude LeBrun , L. J. Mason

We derive a Weyl invariant equation for Gravity by gauging the global Weyl invariance of vacuum Einstein equations. The equation is linear in the curvature and a natural generalization of Einstein equations to Weyl geometry. The system has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Máximo Bañados

Einstein spacetimes (that is vacuum spacetimes possibly with a non-zero cosmological constant {\Lambda}) with constant non-zero Weyl eigenvalus are considered. For type Petrov II & D this assumption allows one to prove that the non-repeated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Alan Barnes

We study the three dimensional Einstein gravity conformally coupled to a scalar field. Solutions of this theory are geometries with vanishing scalar curvature. We consider solutions with a constant scalar field which corresponds to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-08 M. Hasanpour , F. Loran , H. Razaghian

It was shown by Weyl that the general static axisymmetric solution of the vacuum Einstein equations in four dimensions is given in terms of a single axisymmetric solution of the Laplace equation in three-dimensional flat space. Weyl's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Emparan , Harvey S. Reall

All Lorentz invariant solutions of vacuum Einstein's equations are found. It is proved that these solutions describe space-times of constant curvature.

General Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 M. O. Katanaev

$\mathcal{I}$-non-degenerate spaces are spacetimes that can be characterized uniquely by their scalar curvature invariants. The ultimate goal of the current work is to construct a basis for the scalar polynomial curvature invariants in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 A. A. Coley , A. MacDougall , D. D. McNutt

We review recent developments and applications of the classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian geometries. First, we discuss the general setup, i.e. main definitions and methods for the classification, some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-17 Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova

A class of solutions in $d$-dimensional Einstein gravity minimally coupled to a massless scalar field is studied, where the spacetime metric is of a generalized Weyl form with $d-2$ commuting Killing vectors. In addition to the procedure to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Yen-Kheng Lim

We construct the general spherically symmetric and self-similar solution of the Einstein-Vlasov system (collisionless matter coupled to general relativity) with massless particles, under certain regularity conditions. Such solutions have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Carsten Gundlach

On a $3$D manifold, a Weyl geometry consists of pairs $(g, A) =$ (metric, $1$-form) modulo gauge $\widehat{g} = {\rm e}^{2\varphi} g$, $\widehat{A} = A + {\rm d}\varphi$. In 1943, Cartan showed that every solution to the Einstein-Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Joël Merker , Paweł Nurowski

We survey some results on scalar curvature and properties of solutions to the Einstein constraint equations. Topics include an extended discussion of asymptotically flat solutions to the constraint equations, including recent results on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-25 Justin Corvino , Daniel Pollack

We analyse in a systematic way the (non-)compact four dimensional Einstein-Weyl spaces equipped with a Bianchi metric. We show that Einstein-Weyl structures with a Class A Bianchi metric have a conformal scalar curvature of constant sign on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Guy Bonneau

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 discuss locally Weyl (scale) covariant generalisation of quadratic curvature gravity theory in three dimensions using Riemann-Cartan-Weyl space-times. We show that this procedure of Weyl gauging yields a consistent generalisation for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Tekin Dereli , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

We study the space-time geometry generated by coupling a free scalar field with a non-canonical kinetic term to General Relativity in $(2+1)$ dimensions. After identifying a family of scalar Lagrangians that yield exact analytical solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Roberto V. Maluf , Gerardo Mora-Pérez , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We show that the only complete shrinking gradient Ricci solitons with vanishing Weyl tensor are quotients of the standard ones. This gives a new proof of the Hamilton-Ivey-Perel'man classification of 3-dimensional shrinking gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Petersen , William Wylie

We present the explicit metric forms for higher dimensional vanishing scalar invariant (VSI) Lorentzian spacetimes. We note that all of the VSI spacetimes belong to the higher dimensional Kundt class. We determine all of the VSI spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Coley , A. Fuster , S. Hervik , N. Pelavas