Algebraically special coplanar shear-free perfect fluids in general relativity
journal contribution
posted on 2005-01-07, 00:00authored byK Vu, John Carminati
We investigate all algebraically special, not conformally flat, shear-free, isentropic (p(w), w + p ≠ 0), perfect fluid solutions of Einstein's field equations. We show, using the GHP formalism, that if the repeated principle null direction of the Weyl tensor is coplanar with the fluid's 4-velocity and vorticity vector (assumed nonzero), then the fluid's expansion must vanish.