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Phys. Rev. D 49, 879–882 (1994)

No new symmetries of the vacuum Einstein equations

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Riccardo Capovilla*
Departamento de Fisica, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Apartado Postal 14-740, 07000 Mexico D.F., Mexico

Received 9 August 1993; published in the issue dated 15 January 1994

We examine some recently proposed solutions of the linearized vacuum Einstein equations. We show that such solutions are not symmetries of the Einstein equations, because of a crucial integrability condition.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.879
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.879
PACS:
04.20.Jb, 04.20.Cv

*Electronic address: capo@fis.cinvestar.mx