New vacuum solutions of conformal Weyl gravity
Abstract
The Bach equation, i.e., the vacuum field equation following from the Lagrangian L=CijklCijkl, will be completely solved for the case that the metric is conformally related to the cartesian product of two 2-spaces; this covers the spherically and the plane symmetric space-times as special subcases. Contrary to other approaches, we make a covariant 2+2-decomposition of the field equation, and so we are able to apply results from 2-dimensional gravity. Finally, some cosmological solutions will be presented and discussed.
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