A Note on Kerr-Schild metrics with geodesic null vector

1999
5 pages
Published in:
  • Gen.Rel.Grav. 31 (1999) 913-917

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Abstract: (Springer)
We calculate the Einstein and Landau-Lifshitzpseudo-tensors for Kerr-Schild metrics with geodesicnull vector and show that the first of these vanishesidentically but that the second does not. These results correct a statement by Gurses and Gursey whoclaimed that both were zero. We also show that thesub-class of metrics for which both pseudotensors vanishincludes the Kinnersley photon rocket metric for anarbitrarily accelerating point mass.
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • field theory: scalar
  • finite temperature
  • critical phenomena
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • dimension: 3
  • effective Lagrangian
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • renormalization
  • coupling constant