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Perfect-fluid space-times with type-D Weyl tensor

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posted on 2024-06-18, 06:19 authored by J Carminati, J Wainwright
We consider solutions of the Einstein field equations for which the Weyl tensor is of Petrov type D, and whose source is a perfect fluid with equation of state p=p(w), where p and w are the energy density and pressure of the fluid, respectively. We also impose two additional restrictions which are satisfied by most of the known solutions, namely, that the fluid 4-velocity u lies in the 2-space spanned by the two repeated principal null directions of the Weyl tensor, and that the Weyl tensor has zero magnetic part relative to u. Our main result is that for this class of solutions, the equation of state satisfies either dp/dw=0 or dp/dw= 1, or else the solution admits three or more Killing vector fields.

History

Journal

General relativity and gravitation

Volume

17

Pagination

853-867

Location

[Unknown]

ISSN

0001-7701

eISSN

1572-9532

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1985, Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Issue

9

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers