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Twisting type-N vacuum fields with a group H 2

F. J. Chinea, Francisco Navarro-Lérida

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We derive the equations corresponding to twisting type-N vacuum gravitational fields with one Killing vector and one homothetic Killing vector by using the same approach as that developed by one of us in order to treat the case with two non-commuting Killing vectors. We study the case when the homothetic parameter ϕ takes the value -1, which is shown to admit a reduction to a third-order real ordinary differential equation for this problem, similar to that previously obtained by one of us when two Killing vectors are present.

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Key concepts: Homothetic transformation, Killing vector field, Type (biology), Ordinary differential equation, Vector field, Order (exchange), Group (periodic table), Gravitational field