Curvature invariants in algebraically special spacetimes

Conference paper

Curvature invariants in algebraically special spacetimes

Pravda, V.; Bičák, J.

In: The Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, ed. Gurzadyan, V. G; Jantzen, R. T; Ruffini, R., pp. 864-865 (2002)

Abstract

It is well known that all curvature invariants of the order zero vanish for type-III and type-N vacuum spacetimes. We briefly summarize properties of higher order curvature invariants for these spacetimes.

Institute authors

Bičák, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 201/98/1452 — Computational aspects of the finite element method
GACR 202/00/P030 — Boost-rotation symmetric space times with rotating sources

BibTeX

@inproceedings{UTF86,
  author        = {Pravda, V. and Bičák, J.},
  title         = {{Curvature invariants in algebraically special spacetimes}},
  booktitle     = {The Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting},
  editor        = {Gurzadyan, V. G; Jantzen, R. T; Ruffini, R.},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {864-865},
  year          = {2002},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/0101085},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0101085},
}