A Complete Classification of Curvature Collineations of Cylindrically Symmetric Static Metrics

Curvature collineations are symmetry directions for the Riemann tensor, as isometries are for the metric tensor and Ricci collineations are for the Ricci tensor. Complete listings of many metrics possessing some minimal symmetry have been given for a number of symmetry groups for the latter two symmetries. It is shown that a claimed complete listing of cylindrically symmetric static metrics by their curvature collineations [1] was actually incomplete and is completed here. It turns out that in this complete list, unlike the previous claim, there are curvature collineations that are distinct from the set of isometries and of Ricci collineations. The physical interpretation of some of the metrics obtained is given.     

Curvature and Weyl collineations of Bianchi type V spacetimes

The objective of this paper is twofold: (a) First the curvature collineations of the Bianchi type V spacetimes are studied using rank argument of curvature matrix. It is found that the rank of the 6×6 curvature matrix is 3, 4, 5 or 6 for these spacetimes. In one of the rank 3 cases the Bianchi type V spacetime admits proper curvature collineations which form infinite dimensional Lie algebra. (b) Then the Weyl collineations of the Bianchi type V spacetimes are investigated using rank argument of the Weyl matrix. It is obtained that the rank of the 6×6 Weyl matrix for Bianchi type V spacetimes is 0, 4 or 6. It is further shown that these spacetimes do not admit proper Weyl collineations, except in the trivial rank 0 case, which obviously form infinite dimensional Lie algebra. In some special cases it is found that these spacetimes admit Weyl collineations in addition to the Killing vectors, which are in fact proper conformal Killing vectors. The obtained conformal Killing vectors form four-dimensional Lie algebra.     

Curvature collineations for type-N Robinson-Trautman space-times

The metric of type-N Robinson-Trautman space-times is generated by a real functionP satisfying certain field equations. Canonical forms forP are obtained under the assumption that at least one curvature collineation exists. In order to give an example of the improper subgroup structure of a group of curvature collineations all the curvature collineations are determined for the space-times corresponding to one of the two canonical forms.     

Symmetries of Type D Pure Radiation Fields

The geometrical symmetries corresponding to the continuous groups of collineations and motions generated by a null vector l are considered. These symmetries have been translated into the language of Newman-Penrose formalism for pure radiation (PR) type D fields. It is seen that for such fields, conformal, special conformal and homothetic motions degenerate to motion. The concept of free curvature, matter curvature and matter affine collineations have been introduced and the conditions under which PR type D fields admit such collineations have been obtained. Moreover, it is shown that the projective collineation degenerate to matter affine, special projective, conformal, special conformal, null geodesic and special null geodesic collineations. It is also seen that type D pure radiation fields admit Maxwell collineation along the propagation vector l.     

Symmetry mappings in Einstein-Maxwell space-times

General properties of Einstein-Maxwell spaces, with both null and nonnull source-free Maxwell fields, are examined when these space-times admit various kinds of symmetry mappings. These include Killing, homothetic and conformal vector fields, curvature and Ricci collineations, and mappings belonging to the family of contracted Ricci collineations. In particular, the behavior of the electromagnetic field tensor is examined under these symmetry mappings. Examples are given of such space-times which admit proper curvature and proper Ricci collineations. Examples are also given of such space-times in which the metric tensor admits homothetic and other motions, but in which the corresponding Lie derivatives of the electromagnetic Maxwell tensor are not just proportional to the Maxwell tensor.On leave from Mathematics Department, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.     

Collineations of the curvature tensor in general relativity

Curvature collineations for the curvature tensor, constructed from a fundamental Bianchi Type-V metric, are studied. We are concerned with a symmetry property of space-time which is called curvature collineation, and we briefly discuss the physical and kinematical properties of the models.     

Bianchi types of a three-parameter group of curvature collineations

The Bianchi types of the three-parameter group of curvature collineations admitted by a previously discussed family of typeN Robinson-Trautman empty space-times are obtained.     

Curvature and conformal collineations in presence of matter

The necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of curvature and conformai collineations, when they are not conformal motions, are applied in order to obtain some solutions of Einstein's equations in the presence of spherical symmetric distributions of matter.     

Conformal Ricci Collineations of Static Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes

Conformal Ricei collineations of static spherically symmetric spacetimes are studied. The general form of the vector fields generating eonformal Rieei eollineations is found when the Rieei tensor is non-degenerate, in which ease the number of independent eonformal Rieei eollineations is 15, the maximum number for four-dimensional manifolds. In the degenerate ease it is found that the static spherically symmetric spaeetimes always have an infinite number of eonformal Rieei eollineations. Some examples are provided which admit non-trivial eonformal Rieei eollineations, and perfect fluid source of the matter.     

Curvature collineations and the determination of the metric from the curvature in general relativity

It is shown that for a very general class of space-times, the componentsR _bcd ^a of the curvature tensor determine the metric components up to a constant conformal factor. This general class contains most of those cases which are usually considered to be interesting from the point of view of Einstein's general relativity theory. The connection between the above result and the existence of proper curvature collineations is given.     

Ricci tensor with six collineations

In classifying Ricci tensors in terms of their collineations, an interesting case possessing six collineations arises. These collineations are worked out and discussed.On leave from Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.     

Matter Collineations in Kantowski-Sachs, Bianchi Types I and III Spacetimes

The matter collineation classifications of Kantowski-Sachs, Bianchi types I and III space times are studied according to their degenerate and non-degenerate energy-momentum tensor. When the energy-momentum tensor is degenerate, it is shown that the matter collineations are similar to the Ricci collineations with different constraint equations. Solving the constraint equations we obtain some cosmological models in this case. Interestingly, we have also found the case where the energy-momentum tensor is degenerate but the group of matter collineations is finite dimensional. When the energy-momentum tensor is non-degenerate, the group of matter collineations is finite-dimensional and they admit either four which coincides with isometry group or ten matter collineations in which four ones are isometries and the remaining ones are proper.     

Conservation laws in general relativity based upon the existence of preferred collineations

The conservation laws based upon the existence of curvature and Ricci collineations are investigated and the results given recently by Katzin, Levine and Davis are reinterpreted and generalized. The concept of a Maxwell collineation is introduced and corresponding conservation laws are found.     

Ricci Collineations in Perfect Fluid Bianchi V Spacetime

The Bianchi V spacetimes with perfect-fluid matter are classified according to their Ricci collineations. We have found that in the degenerate case there are infinitely many Ricci collineations whereas a subcase gives a finite number of Ricci collineations which are five. In the non-degenerate case the group of Ricci collineations is finite, i.e. four or five or six or seven. Also, all results obtained satisfy the energy conditions.     

Classification of Spherically Symmetric Static Spacetimes According to Their Matter Collineations

The spherically symmetric static spacetimes are classified according to their matter collineations. These are investigated when the energy-momentum tensor is degenerate and also when it is non-degenerate. We have found a case where the energy-momentum tensor is degenerate but the group of matter collineations is finite. For the non-degenerate case, we obtain either four, five, six or ten independent matter collineations in which four are isometries and the rest are proper. We conclude that the matter collineations coincide with the Ricci collineations but the constraint equations are different which on solving can provide physically interesting cosmological solutions.     

Checking collineation vectors with reduce

A package of programs for writing and checking the solutions to the equations for various types of collineations, written in the symbolic manipulation language REDUCE is presented. Some examples of previously found collineations that have been checked are given, and new results reported.     

Ricci Symmetries of Static Space-Times with Maximal Symmetric Transverse Spaces

In the paper [M. Akbar and R.G. Cai, Commun. Theor. Phys. 45 （2006） 95], a complete classification is provided with at least one component of the vector field V is zero. In this paper, I consider the vector field V with all non-zero components and the static space times with maximal symmetric transverse spaces are classified according to their Ricci collineations. These are investigated for non-degenerate Ricci tensor det R ≠0. It turns out that the only collineations admitted by these spaces can be ten, seven, six or four. It also covers our previous results as a spacial case. Some new metrics admitting proper Ricci collineations are also investigated.     

General symmetries of a string fluid space-time

It is shown that a string fluid is the simplest anisotropic fluid with vanishing heat flux. Furthermore it has the property that the Ricci tensor is obtained from the energy momentum tensor, and vice versa, if one interchanges the fluid variables. We use previous works on the collineations of anisotropic fluids, which include the string fluid as a particular case, to compute the kinematic and the dynamic effects of certain collineations of a string fluid. It is found that the possible spacetimes, which can carry a string fluid, are severely restricted and the possible string fluids in spacetimes, which can admit them are more or less fixed. We recover previous results on the effect of symmetries in string fluid spacetimes and get many new ones, for example the matter inheritance collineations. The study and the results are presented in a systematic manner, which allows the comprehension and the comparison of the restrictions imposed by each collineation. Finally one can use the same method of work for a systematic study of similar problems.     

Finding Collineations of Kimura Metrics

Kimura investigated static spherically symmetric metrics and found several to have quadratic first integrals. We use REDUCE and the package Dimsym to seek collineations for these metrics. For one metric we find that three proper projective collineations exist, two of which are associated with the two irreducible quadratic first integrals found by Kimura. The third projective collineation is found to have a reducible quadratic first integral. We also find that this metric admits two conformal motions and that the resulting reducible conformal Killing tensors also lead to Kimura's quadratic integrals. We demonstrate that when a Killing tensor is known for a metric we can seek an associated collineation by solving first order equations that give the Killing tensor in terms of the collineation rather than the second order determining equations for collineations. We report less interesting results for other Kimura metrics.