SYMMETRIES OF TYPE N EMPTY SPACE-TIMES POSSESSING TWISTING GEODESIC RAYS

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COLLINSON, CD
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS PART A GENERAL | 1969年 / 2卷 / 06期
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10.1088/0305-4470/2/6/001
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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It is shown that if the geodesic ray congruence associated with an empty space-time of type N is not hypersurface orthogonal (that is the geodesic rays are twisting) then the space-time has at most one symmetry.
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