The Weyl tensor and stationary electrovac space–times
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 17 (2) , 282-283
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.522893
Abstract
It is shown that static electrovac spaces admit only static electric type Maxwell fields, and it is proved that a necessary and sufficient condition for a stationary electrovac space–time to be static is that the Weyl tensor and the Maxwell field tensor both be pure electric type.Keywords
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- Weyl tensor decomposition in stationary vacuum space-timesJournal of Mathematical Physics, 1974