Newman-Penrose Approach to Twisting Degenerate Metric英文教材.pdfVIP

Commun. math. Phys. 13, 45--61 (I969) Newman-Penrose Approach to Twisting Degenerate Metrics* C. J. T,~_~BoT Department of Mathematics, University of Bradford Abstract. The well known method of N~w~A~¢ and PE:gl~OSE is used to find solutions of the Einstein empty space field equations, which are algebraically special and where the degenerate principal null vectors are not hypersurface orthogonal. As is to be expected the method systematically yields the results obtained by K ~ . An explanation is given of the complex coordinate transforma- tion technique of generating new metrics from Sehwarzschilds; also a generalisation of Kerr and Schild type metrics is investigated. 1. Introduction This paper shows how to find solutions of Einsteins field equations in empty space which contain shear-free, diverging, and twisting geodesic rays. Such solutions were first dealt with in a general manner by K ~ R [1 ], although he only summarised his results. As is well known, he found an explicit solution which is a rotating generalisation of the Schwarzschild solution. Another explicit solution was found by N~wMA~, UNTI, and TAMBU~I~TO [2], also a generalisation of the Schwarzsehild case, though apparantly of less physical interest. K~R~ and SC~ILD [3, 4] found a whole class of solutions, including the above Kerr rotating metric, all having a metric tensor of the form: where U,~ is the meta~e tensor of flat space and l~ is a null vector. Recently I~o~I~SON, Ro~r~soN, and ZVND [5] have given more details of K ~ s approach, and, as well as making several important simpli