Classification of spacetimes according to conformal Killing vectors
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چکیده
Conformal Killing vectors (CKVs) preserve the spacetime metric up to a factor. Homothetic vectors and Killing vectors are special cases of CKVs. Classification of some classes of spacetimes on the basis of CKVs give interesting results showing how homothetic and Killing vectors which form subsets of the set of CKVs can be recovered as a result of the above classification. ∗On leave from: Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics, National University of Sciences and Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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