Gravitational instantons from minimal surfaces

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/2/024zbMath0966.83012arXivgr-qc/9812007OpenAlexW3125851716MaRDI QIDQ4699863

Yavuz Nutku, J. Kalayci, A. N. Aliev, M. Hortacsu

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812007

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfaceEinstein's equationsNewman-Penrose formalismhelicoidgravitational instantonself-dual solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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