Further heavenly metrics and their symmetries
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 17 (4) , 585-596
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.522947
Abstract
New developments in a continuing investigation of complex V4’s with purely self‐dual conformal curvature are presented: (1) conformal and projective extensions of spaces with =0 are discussed; (2) Killing vectors for general heavenly metrics are determined; (3) the solutions, in heavenly spaces, for (massless) D (0,s) spinor fields (in particular, the Maxwell field) are found; then (4) new examples of heavenly metrics of types G×[–] and D×[–] are provided; lastly, contraction of the D×D solutions of Plebański and Demiański to type D×[–] is performed, giving a complex prototype of the Kerr–Newman solution, and all solutions of the type N×[–] are given, which contain two arbitrary functions of two variables.
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