Type N spacetimes whose invariant classifications require the fourth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/10/020zbMath0888.53057OpenAlexW1992532540MaRDI QIDQ4378174

James E. F. Skea

Publication date: 7 June 1998

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/14/10/020

zbMATH Keywords

high-order derivativesinvariant classificationnon-conformally flat examplenonzero Weyl tensorPetrov type \(N\)pure radiation spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55)

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