Third-order geometrical null symmetries of gravitational fields |
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Authors: | L. N. Katkar |
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Affiliation: | (1) Shivaji University, 416 004 Kolhapur, India |
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Abstract: | The first-, the second-, and the third-order null Killing vectors in a gravitational field are explored separately. When an algebraically special Petrov-type free gravitational field isaligned with a source-free (nonnull/null) electromagnetic field, their common propagation vectorla is shown to be a third-order null Killing vector field (lllgab = 0,llgab 0). When the two fields arenot aligned, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a third-order null symmetry are obtained in Newman-Penrose formalism. |
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