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Self-dual gravity revisited

Ch Devchand and V Ogievetsky

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Reconsidering the harmonic space description of the self-dual Einstein equations, we streamline the proof that all self-dual pure gravitational fields allow a local description in terms of an unconstrained analytic prepotential in harmonic space. Our formulation yields a simple recipe for constructing self-dual metrics starting from any explicit choice of such prepotential; and we illustrate the procedure by producing a metric related to the Taub-NUT solution from the simplest monomial choice of prepotential.


PACS

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

MSC

83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 9 (September 1996)

Received 11 July 1995, in final form 8 July 1996



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