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Vacuum spacetimes with a spacelike, hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector: reduced equations in a canonical frame

S Bonanos

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The Newman–Penrose equations for spacetimes having one spacelike Killing vector are reduced—in a geometrically defined 'canonical frame'—to a minimal set, and its differential structure is studied. Expressions for the frame vectors in an arbitrary coordinate basis are given, and coordinate-independent choices of the metric functions are suggested which make the components of the Ricci tensor in the direction of the Killing vector vanish.


PACS

04.20.Cv Fundamental problems and general formalism

04.20.Fy Canonical formalism, Lagrangians, and variational principles

04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure

MSC

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

83C60 Spinor and twistor methods; Newman-Penrose formalism

14J70 Hypersurfaces

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 24 (21 December 2003)

Received 28 July 2003

Published 30 October 2003



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