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One-sided type-D metrics with aligned Einstein-Maxwell

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-10-18 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider four-dimensional, Riemannian metrics for which one or other of the self-dual or anti-self-dual Weyl tensors is type-D and which satisfy the Einstein-Maxwell equations with the corresponding Maxwell field aligned with the type-D Weyl spinor, in the sense of sharing the same Principal Null Directions (or PNDs). Such metrics always have a valence-2 Killing spinor, and therefore a Hermitian structure and at least one Killing vector. We rederive the results of Araneda (\cite{ba}), that these metrics can all be given in terms of a solution of the SU()SU(\infty)-Toda field equation, and show that, when there is a second Killing vector commuting with the first, the method of Ward can be applied to show that the metrics can also be given in terms of a pair of axisymmetric solutions of the flat three-dimensional Laplacian. Thus in particular the field equations linearise. Some examples of the constructions are given.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.13410,
  title  = {One-sided type-D metrics with aligned Einstein-Maxwell},
  author = {Paul Tod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13410},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages, sequel to arXiv:2003.03234

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