A vacuum spacetime with closed null geodesics

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2012.11.004zbMath1263.83055OpenAlexW2023250389MaRDI QIDQ1947396

Debojit Sarma, Mahadev Patgiri, Faizuddin Ahmed

Publication date: 22 April 2013

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2012.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

local isometryvacuum spacetimesclosed null geodesicsplane wave spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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