Spherically symmetric spacetimes admitting inheriting conformal Killing vector fields

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1111
Author(s):  
A A Coley ◽  
B O J Tupper
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1650030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhail Khan ◽  
Tahir Hussain ◽  
Gulzar Ali Khan

The aim of this paper is to investigate teleparallel conformal Killing vector fields (CKVFs) in plane symmetric non-static spacetimes. Ten teleparallel conformal Killing’s equations are obtained which are linear in the components of the teleparallel CKVF [Formula: see text]. A general solution of these equations comprising the components of CKVF and conformal factor is presented, which subject to some integrability conditions. For seven particular choices of the metric functions, the integrability conditions are completely solved to get the final form of teleparallel CKVFs and conformal factor. In four different cases we get proper CKVFs, while in the remaining three cases it is shown that teleparallel CKVFs reduce to teleparallel homothetic or teleparallel Killing vector fields.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 1850126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhail Khan ◽  
Amjad Mahmood ◽  
Ahmad T. Ali

This paper intends to obtain concircular vector fields (CVFs) of Kantowski–Sachs and Bianch type-III spacetimes. For this purpose, ten conformal Killing equations and their general solution in the form of conformal Killing vector fields (CKVFs) are derived along with their conformal factors. The obtained conformal Killing vector fields are then placed in Hessian equations to obtain the final form of concircular vector fields. The existence of concircular symmetry imposes restrictions on the metric functions. The conditions imposing restrictions on these metric functions are obtained as a set of integrability conditions. It is shown that Kantowski–Sachs and Bianchi type-III spacetimes admit four-, six-, or fifteen-dimensional concircular vector fields. It is established that for Einstein spaces, every conformal Killing vector field is a concircular vector field. Moreover, it is explored that every concircular vector field obtained here is also a conformal Ricci collineation.


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