Published September 7, 2004
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Journal article
Cartan normal conformal connections from pairs of second-order PDEs
- 1. FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, 5000 Cordoba (Argentina)
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (United States)
Description
We explore the different geometric structures that can be constructed from the class of pairs of second-order PDEs that satisfy the condition of a vanishing generalized Wuenschmann invariant. This condition arises naturally from the requirement of a vanishing torsion tensor. In particular, we find that from this class of PDEs we can obtain all four-dimensional conformal Lorentzian metrics as well as all Cartan normal conformal O(4, 2) connections. To conclude, we briefly discuss how the conformal Einstein equations can be imposed by further restricting our class of PDEs to those satisfying additional differential conditions
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/4063/cqg4_17_004.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/4063/cqg4_17_004.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/21/17/004;
- PII
- S0264-9381(04)78687-6;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 21
- Journal Issue
- 17
- Journal Page Range
- p. 4063-4086
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36029617
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; METRICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TENSORS; TORSION
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; TRANSFORMATIONS