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systems (and corresponding “spectral problems”) as well as of B¨acklund transformations for these
systems.
More later, a spectral problem of yet another structure for the same stationary axisymmetric
electrovacuum Einstein - Maxwell field equations in the form of a sigma-model was suggested in
[40]. In this more geometrical context, calculation of soliton solutions, also was performed in the
spirit of the inverse scattering approach, but the used form of the spectral problem has led directly
to calculation of the corresponding Ernst potentials only.
On the relations between the solution generating methods. Close interrelations between
different approaches to construction of vacuum solution generating methods (the inverse scattering
method, theory of B¨acklund transformations and group-theoretical approach) were described by
Cosgrove [41] – [43]. The relations between associated linear systems (“spectral problems”) used
by different authors for generalizations of their approaches to electrovacuum fields was found by
Kramer. On the difficulties with explicit applications of solution generating methods. The general
studies of the families of solutions generating with the methods mentioned above occur rather
difficult because these families of solutions do not admit their representation in general and explicit
form, due to a presence in these solutions, besides a large number of constant parameters, some
functional parameters – the potentials which characterize the chosen initial (background) solution.
In each of these methods, these potentials should satisfy some linear systems with coefficients
depending on the choice of initial solution, but this system can be solved explicitly not for any
choice of the initial solution. Only in those cases, in which for chosen initial (background) solution
this linear system can be solved explicitly, one can calculate all components of the solutions
generating on this background.
On the “coordinates” in the space of solutions. The difficulties mentioned just above can be
overcome if we introduce in the space of solutions, instead of metric and field components, some
“coordinates” which, from one hand, would be related to various physical and geometrical
characteristics of the solutions and, from the other hand, different solution generating procedures
could be represented as transformations of these “coordinates”.
In the most general cases, for G2-symmetry reduced vacuum Einstein equations and
electrovacuum Einstein - Maxwell equations, the role of such “coordinates” in the infinite-
dimensional spaces of their local solutions can belong to the monodromy data of the fundamental
solutions of the corresponding associated linear systems (“spectral problems”). However, for large
subclasses of field configurations which possess the asymptotic behaviour of the same type near
some space-time boundaries, such “coordinates” can be defined in a simpler way. For example, for
stationary axisymmetric fields the role of such “coordinates can be played by the values of the Ernst
potentials on those parts of axis of symmetry near which the space-time geometry and
electromagnetic fields possess regular behavior.
In this paper, we consider the classes of fields, which possess, similarly to the regular parts of
axis of symmetry in axisymmetric fields, the boundaries consisting of degenerate orbits of the
isometry group G2 with regular behavior of metric and electromagnetic fields near these boundaries
(see below for more details). It is clear that besides the stationary axisymmetric fields near the
regular parts of the axis of symmetry, these classes of fields include, in particular, cylindrical waves
and some other types of wave-like or cosmological solutions, stationary fields with Killing horizons
as well as some other types of solutions which can have, in particular, a dynamical nature (like the
well-known “C-metrics”). For all these types of fields, the “coordinates” in the space of solutions
may be represented by the functional parameters defined as the values of the Ernst potentials on the
lines in the orbit space which consist of the points (orbits) at which the geometry of the orbits is
degenerate, but the space-time geometry remains regular. These “coordinates” determine the
corresponding local solutions “almost unequally”.
As it will be shown further, different solution generating procedures can bepresented
explicitly and in a very simple form as transformations of the described above “coordinates” in the
spaces of local solutions. It is very important that these transformations possess a general form
which does not need to specify in advance the choice of the initial solution. The initial solution in