Shearfree and conformally Ricci-flat perfect fluids

✍ Scribed by N. Bergh

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 167 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-9017
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00398425

✦ Synopsis

A proof is given that shearfree perfect fluids, the metric of which is conformally related to a vacuum solution, are either of Petrov type D, as well as locally rotationally symmetric, or are conformally flat. In both cases the general solutions are well known.