Published July 21, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Solutions of the sDiff(2)Toda equation with SU(2) symmetry

  • 1. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (United States)
  • 2. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843 (United States)

Description

We present the general solution to the Plebanski equation for an h space that admits Killing vectors for an entire SU(2) of symmetries, which is therefore also the general solution of the sDiff(2)Toda equation that allows these symmetries. Desiring these solutions as a bridge toward the future for yet more general solutions of the sDiff(2)Toda equation, we generalize the earlier work of Olivier, on the Atiyah-Hitchin metric, and re-formulate work of Babich and Korotkin, and Tod, on the Bianchi IX approach to a metric with an SU(2) of symmetries. We also give careful delineations of the conformal transformations required to ensure that a metric of Bianchi IX type has a zero Ricci tensor, so that it is a self-dual, vacuum solution of the complex-valued version of Einstein's equations, as appropriate for the original Plebanski equation.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/14/145001

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/27/14/145001;
PII
S0264-9381(10)43592-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
[21 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42033305
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGY; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; METRICS; RICCI TENSOR; SU-2 GROUPS; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS; VECTORS
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; LIE GROUPS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TENSORS