Real Kasner and related complex ``windmill'' vacuum spacetime metrics
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Real Kasner and related complex ``windmill'' vacuum spacetime metrics
zbMATH Open document ID: 0811.53076
DOI: 10.1007/BF00760081
author: Colin B. G. McIntosh
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1993-01-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The metrics of \textit{T. Lewis} [Proc. R. Soc., Lond. Ser. A 136, 176-192 (1932; Zbl 0005.26905)] are shown to be Kasner metrics over the complex field. They admit a four-parameter local homothetic group of motions. The author calls them ``windmill metrics'' and discusses their null directions along with an extension to some other families of metrics.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53Z05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C20
zbMATH DE Number: 95352
zbMATH Keywords: windmill metrics
zbMATH Keywords: Kasner metrics
reviewed by: S. N. Pandey
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00760081
OpenAlex ID: W1986921879
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 95352