4D Conformal metrics, the eikonal equation and fourth-order ODEs

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/23/010zbMath1086.53093OpenAlexW2053808941MaRDI QIDQ5717869

Magdalena Marciano-Melchor, Ezra T. Newman, Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza

Publication date: 13 January 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/22/23/010

zbMATH Keywords

ordinary differential equationspartial differential equationscontact transformationseikonal equationfour-dimensioanl conformal metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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