A note on Hauser's type N gravitational field with twist
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 9 (3) , 357-367
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/9/3/006
Abstract
A sense in which flat space-time can be recovered as a limit of the newly discovered Hauser space-times (see Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.33, p.1112 of 1974) is discussed. Thus a fairly complete analysis of the symmetries of these space-times, together with the geometry of their linearized principal congruences and Weyl curvature tensors can be made. Unfortunately the Hauser space-times are not asymptotically flat and cannot therefore be regarded as describing gravitational radiation from an isolated system.Keywords
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