Affine collineations in Einstein-Maxwell space-times
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Affine collineations in Einstein-Maxwell space-times
zbMATH Open document ID: 0769.53011
DOI: 10.1007/BF00759126
author: Jaume Carot
author: L. Mas
author: Héctor Rago
author: José Mir Justino da Costa
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1993-01-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors study a particular type of symmetry, namely (proper) affine collineations, in connection with electromagnetic fields; more specifically, they discuss the existence of an affine vector field in an Einstein-Maxwell spacetime (both non-null and null cases), i.e. to characterize or determine all Einstein-Maxwell solutions which admit proper affine collineations. At first, the authors consider the non-null electromagnetic field case and show that there are no solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations admitting a proper affine collineation. For the null electromagnetic field case, they characterize all the possible solutions with such property.
reviewed by: I.D.Teodorescu
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53B30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C22
zbMATH DE Number: 95348
zbMATH Keywords: electromagnetic field
zbMATH Keywords: affine vector field
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 95348