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On purely gravito-magnetic vacuum space-times

journal contribution
posted on 2005-03-01, 00:00 authored by E Zakhary, John Carminati
It is shown that there are no purely magnetic, vacuum, spacetime metrics where any one of the following conditions holds: (a) the ratio of any two eigenvalues of the Weyl tensor is constant, (b) both of the Riemann principal null directions, defining the time-like blade, are nonrotating, (c) the shear tensor possesses an eigenvector va which is defined by one of the space-like Riemann principal directions, (d) the vorticity is parallel to va, where va is defined by one of the space-like Riemann principal directions.

History

Journal

General relativity and gravitation

Volume

37

Issue

3

Pagination

605 - 613

Publisher

Plenum Press

Location

New York, N.Y.

ISSN

0001-7701

eISSN

1572-9532

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal