The generalized Taub-NUT congruence in Minkowski spaces |
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Authors: | Ivor Robinson Edward P Wilson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Dallas, 75062-4799 Irving, Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | With any shear-free congruence of null geodesics in a Lorentzian geometry there is associated a Cauchy-Riemann three-space; and in certain spacetimes including the Ricci-flat spacetimes with expanding null shear-free (n.s.f.) congruences the deviation form of the congruence picks out an integrable distribution of complex two-spaces in the CR geometry. Conversely, given a CR geometry with an integrable distribution of two-spaces one can construct an associated family of spacetimes with a null, shear-free congruence. The interesting problem is the restrictionR
ab
=0. We consider the case of n.s.f. congruences in Minkowski spacetime constructed from CR geometries of maximal symmetry. The special two-spaces are here taken to be those associated with either the Taub-NUT geometry or, as a limiting case, those associated with the Hauser twisting typeN solution. We obtain the most general solution for these cases. |
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