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Empty space-times of embedding class two

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Using the canonical forms for symmetric tensors in Minkowski space and the Petrov forms of the Weyl tensor, algebraic relationships between the two kinds of classification are developed for empty space-times of embedding class two.

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    D. E. Hodgkinson

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Hodgkinson, D.E. Empty space-times of embedding class two. Gen Relat Gravit 16, 569–587 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00769630

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