/* Copyright (C) 2004 Viktor T. Toth * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * Classification of the Taub-Nut plane vacuum space * */ if get('ctensor,'version)=false then load(ctensor); ("Computing the Petrov classification of the Taub-Nut plane vacuum")$ ("We use frames")$ cframe_flag:true; ("We set up the metric by hand")$ ct_coords:[t,x,y,z]; (lfg:ident(4),lfg[1,1]:-1,lfg); fri:matrix( [ -z^(-1/4)/sqrt(2),0,0,%i*z^(-1/4)/sqrt(2)], [%i*z^(-1/4)/sqrt(2),0,0, -z^(-1/4)/sqrt(2)], [0,-sqrt(z)/sqrt(2), sqrt(z)/sqrt(2),0], [0,-sqrt(z)/sqrt(2),-sqrt(z)/sqrt(2),0] ); cmetric(false); ug:invert(lg)$ nptetrad(false); weyl(false); psi(false); ("And obtain the Petrov class")$ petrov(); /* End of demo -- comment line needed by MAXIMA to resume demo menu */