Left-Degenerate Vacuum Metrics

Jerzy F. Plebanski and Ivor Robinson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 493 – Published 30 August 1976
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Abstract

For all complex space-times in which the self-dual part of the Weyl tensor is algebraically degenerate, Einstein's vacuum equations are reduced to a single differential equation of the second order and second degree.

  • Received 21 May 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.493

©1976 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Jerzy F. Plebanski*

  • Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México 14, Distrito Federal, México

Ivor Robinson

  • The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080

  • *On leave of absence from the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

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Vol. 37, Iss. 9 — 30 August 1976

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