Flat deformation of a spacetime admitting two commuting Killing fields

It is shown that, given an analytic Lorentzian metric on a 4-manifold, gab, which admits two Killing vector fields, there exists a local deformation law ηab = a gab + bHab, where Hab is a two-dimensional projector, such that ηab is flat and admits the same Killing vectors. We also characterize the p...

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Autores: Llosa, Josep, Carot, Jaume
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/171251
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/171251
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Relativitat especial (Física)
Special relativity (Physics)
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Resumo:It is shown that, given an analytic Lorentzian metric on a 4-manifold, gab, which admits two Killing vector fields, there exists a local deformation law ηab = a gab + bHab, where Hab is a two-dimensional projector, such that ηab is flat and admits the same Killing vectors. We also characterize the particular case when the projector Hab coincides with the quotient metric. We apply some of our results to general stationary axisymmetric spacetimes.