Published July 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Conformally Ricci-flat spacetimes admitting a killing vector field parallel to the gradient of the conformal scalar field

  • 1. Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Wilrijk (Belgium). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Queen Mary Coll., London (UK). School of Mathematical Sciences

Description

It is shown that the stress-energy tensor of a conformally Ricci-flat spacetime in which there exists a Killing vector field parallel to the gradient of the conformal scalar field (a) cannot be of the perfect fluid type and (b) can only originate in an electromagnetic field when the latter is null and the solution belongs to a particular class of pp-waves. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Lett. Math. Phys.
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
1
Series
Lett. Math. Phys.
Journal Page Range
43-47
ISSN
0377-9017
CODEN
LMPHD

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant SG/C/17377