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Obtaining a class of type O pure radiation metrics with a negative cosmological...

Author(s): Edgar, S. Brian cv logo 1 ; Ramos, M. P. Machado cv logo 2

Date: 2007

Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7700

Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho

Subject(s): Pure radiation metrics; Invariant formalism


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Using the generalised invariant formalism we derive a class of conformally flat spacetimes whose Ricci tensor has a pure radiation and a Ricci scalar component. The method used is a development of the methods used earlier for pure radiation spacetimes of Petrov types O and N respectively. In this paper we demonstrate how to handle, in the generalised invariant formalism, spacetimes with isotropy freedom and rich Killing vector structure. Once the spacetimes have been constructed, it is straightforward to deduce their Karlhede classification: the Karlhede algorithm terminates at the fourth derivative order, and the spacetimes all have one degree of null isotropy and three, four or five Killing vectors.
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Language English
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