Calculating Symmetries in Newman-Tamburino metrics

2004/03/07 by John D. Steele, Steele, John D.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0403031

arxiv created 2004/03/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

In this paper I show that the Newman-Tamburino spherical metrics always admit a Killing vector, correcting a claim by Collinson and French, (1967 J. Math. Phys. 8 701) and also admit a homothety. A similar calculation is given for the limit of the Newman-Tamburino cylindrical metric.

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