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A spacetime for which the Karlhede invariant classification requires the fourth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor

Andreas Koutras

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It is shown that the conformally flat radiation metric found by Wils (1989) requires the fourth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor for the Karlhede classification to terminate. This contradicts a widely held opinion that the true upper bound is three. The metric can admit at most one Killing vector and/or a homothety.

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It is shown that the conformally flat radiation metric found by Wils (1989) requires the fourth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor for the Karlhede classification to terminate. This contradicts a widely held opinion that the true upper bound is three. The metric can admit at most one Killing vector and/or a homothety.

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It is shown that the conformally flat radiation metric found by Wils (1989) requires the fourth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor for the Karlhede classification to terminate. This contradicts a widely held opinion that the true upper bound is three. The metric can admit at most one Killing vector and/or a homothety.

Key concepts: Physics, Covariant derivative, Mathematical physics, Homothetic transformation, Covariant transformation, Riemann curvature tensor, Spacetime, Invariant (physics)

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