Nonexistence of Petrov type III Space-Times on which Weyl's Neutrino Equation or Maxwell's Equations satisfy Huygens' Principle
Abstract
Extending previous results we show that there are no Petrov type III space-times on which either the Weyl neutrino equation or Maxwell's equations satisfy Huygens' principle. We prove the result by using Maple's NPspinor package to convert the five-index necessary condition obtained by Alvarez and Wunsch to dyad form. The integrability conditions of the problem lead to a system of polynomial equations. We then apply Maple's grobner package to show that this system has no admissible solutions.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math-ph/0504040
- Bibcode:
- 2005math.ph...4040M
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Mathematical Physics;
- 35L05;
- 35L15
- E-Print:
- 14 pages