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Black holes with Weyl charge and non-Riemannian waves

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>10/1995
<mark>Journal</mark>Classical and Quantum Gravity
Issue number10
Volume12
Number of pages19
Pages (from-to)2587-2605
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A simple modification to Einstein's theory of gravity in terms of a non-Riemannian connection is examined. A new tensor-variational approach yields field equations that possess a covariance similar to the gauge covariance of electromagnetism. These equations are shown to possess solutions analogous to those found in the Einstein-Maxwell system. In particular one finds gravi-electric and gravi-magnetic charges contributing to a spherically symmetric static Reissner - Nordström metric. Such Weyl `charges' provide a source for the non-Riemannian torsion and metric gradient fields instead of the electromagnetic field. The theory suggests that matter may be endowed with gravitational charges that couple to gravity in a manner analogous to electromagnetic couplings in an electromagnetic field. The nature of gravitational coupling to spinor matter in this theory is also investigated and a solution exhibiting a plane-symmetric gravitational metric wave coupled via non-Riemannian waves to a propagating spinor field is presented.