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arxiv: 1806.09950 · v2 · pith:4EKH3QLCnew · submitted 2018-06-26 · 🌀 gr-qc

A new class of non-aligned Einstein-Maxwell solutions with a geodesic, shearfree and non-expanding multiple Debever-Penrose vector

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In a recent study [NVdB2017] of algebraically special Einstein-Maxwell fields it was shown that, for non-zero cosmological constant, non-aligned solutions cannot have a geodesic and shearfree multiple Debever-Penrose vector k. When $\Lambda=0$ such solutions do exist and can be classified, after fixing the null-tetrad such that $\Psi_0 = \Psi_1 = \Phi_1 = 0$ and $\Phi_0 = 1$, according to whether the Newman-Penrose coefficient $\pi$ is 0 or not. The family $\pi = 0$ contains the Griffiths solutions (Griffiths 1986), with as sub-families the Cahen-Spelkens, Cahen-Leroy and Szekeres metrics. It was claimed in [Griffiths 1986] and repeated in [NVdB2017] that for $\pi = 0$ both null-rays k and l are non-twisting: while it is certainly true that $\mu \Im (\rho) = 0$, the case $\mu = 0$ appears to have been overlooked. A family of solutions is presented in which k is twisting but non-expanding.

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