ON THE GEOMETRY OF WARPED SPACETIMES

被引:50
作者
CAROT, J [1 ]
DACOSTA, J [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MADEIRA,DEPT MATEMAT,FUNCHAL,PORTUGAL
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10.1088/0264-9381/10/3/007
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
An invariant characterization of warped spacetimes is given and a classification scheme for them is proposed. Some results on the curvature structure (Petrov and Segre types of the Weyl and Ricci tensors) are given and a thorough study of the isometry group that each class of warped spacetime may admit is carried out.
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页码:461 / 482
页数:22
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