NewEvery arXiv paper, its researchers & institutions — mapped.
paper

Conformally flat Kaluza-Klein spaces, pseudo-/para-complex space forms and generalized gravitational kinks

arXiv:0901.2648 · doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2009.06.013

Abstract

The equations describing the Kaluza-Klein reduction of conformally flat spaces are investigated in arbitrary dimensions. Special classes of solution related to pseudo-Kahler and para-Kahler structures are constructed and classified according to spacetime dimension, signature and gauge field rank. Remarkably, rank two solutions include gravitational kinks together with their centripetal and centrifugal deformations.

20 pages, 1 figure