Published October 7, 2004
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Journal article
On the theory of homothetic and affine orbits in spacetime
Creators
- 1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Meston Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE (United Kingdom)
Description
Following recent work on the theory of Killing orbits in spacetime, an extension of these ideas is made to include the orbits of the homothetic and affine Lie algebras of symmetry vector fields. The possibility of a coincidence of orbits from the Killing, homothetic or affine algebras is explored and the results related to the stability of the orbits. A classification of homothetic isotropy is given and several examples of the possible orbit and isotropy behaviour are presented
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/4731/cqg4_19_015.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/0264-9381/21/4731/cqg4_19_015.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/21/19/015;
- PII
- S0264-9381(04)80606-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 21
- Journal Issue
- 19
- Journal Page Range
- p. 4731-4742
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36029456
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CLASSIFICATION; ISOTROPY; LIE GROUPS; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- SYMMETRY GROUPS