View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Ghent University Academic Bibliography Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Refinements of the Weyl tensor classification in five dimensions This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 2012 Class. Quantum Grav. 29 155016 (http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/29/15/155016) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 157.193.53.227 The article was downloaded on 16/07/2012 at 16:13 Please note that terms and conditions apply. IOP PUBLISHING CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY Class. Quantum Grav. 29 (2012) 155016 (50pp) doi:10.1088/0264-9381/29/15/155016 Refinements of the Weyl tensor classification in five dimensions Alan Coley1, Sigbjørn Hervik2, Marcello Ortaggio3 and Lode Wylleman2,4,5 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada 2 Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway 3 Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zitnˇ a´ 25, 115 67 Prague 1, Czech Republic 4 Department of Mathematical Analysis EA16, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium 5 Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail:
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[email protected] Received 31 March 2012, in final form 21 June 2012 Published 16 July 2012 Online at stacks.iop.org/CQG/29/155016 Abstract We refine the null alignment classification of the Weyl tensor of a five- dimensional spacetime.