Gyratons on Melvin spacetime

Hedvika Kadlecová and Pavel Krtouš
Phys. Rev. D 82, 044041 – Published 25 August 2010

Abstract

We present and analyze new exact gyraton solutions of algebraic type II on a background which is a static, cylindrically symmetric Melvin universe of type D. For a vanishing electromagnetic field it reduces to previously studied gyratons on Minkowski background. We demonstrate that the solutions are a member of a more general family of the Kundt spacetimes. We show that the Einstein equations reduce to a set of mostly linear equations on a transverse 2-space and we discuss the properties of polynomial scalar curvature invariants which are generally nonconstant but unaffected by the presence of gyratons.

  • Received 9 June 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.044041

© 2010 The American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Hedvika Kadlecová* and Pavel Krtouš

  • Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic

  • *hedvika.kadlecova@centrum.cz
  • Pavel.Krtous@mff.cuni.cz

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Vol. 82, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2010

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