Code
01T02008
Duration
01 December 2008 → 31 March 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Astronomy and space sciences
- Classical physics
- Materials physics
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum physics
Keywords
exact solutions
general relativity
gravitation
Project description
The main objective of this research proposal is to improve the known Karlhede bounds for perfect fluid type D spacetimes (in particular the aligned type D fluids). An important spin-off is the possibility of obtaining new perfect fluid exact solutions because our method enables a complete integration of the differential equations involving the Ricci rotation coefficients and their derivatives.