Solutions of the sDiff(2)Toda equation with SU(2) symmetry
Creators
- 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/10.1088/0264-9381/27/14/145001Additional 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