Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrodinger Separable Solutions of Einstein's Equations
Abstract
This paper contains an investigation of spaces with a two parameter Abelian isometry group in which the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the geodesies is soluble by separation of variables in such a way that a certain natural canonical orthonormal tetrad is determined. The spaces satisfying the stronger condition that the corresponding Schrodinger equation is separable are isolated in a canonical form for which Einstein's vacuum equations and the source-free Einstein-Maxwell equations (with or without a Λ term) can be solved explicitly. A fairly extensive family of new solutions is obtained including the previously known solutions of de Sitter, Kasner, Taub-NUT, and Kerr as special cases.
- Publication:
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 1968
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF03399503
- Bibcode:
- 1968CMaPh..10..280C