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Noether symmetries of Bianchi type II spacetimes

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This paper is devoted to investigate Noether symmetries of Bianchi type II spacetimes. We use the reduced involutive form of the determining equations to classify their possible algebras. We show that Noether symmetries contain both Killing vectors and homothetic motions.

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Hickman, M., Yazdan, Sa. Noether symmetries of Bianchi type II spacetimes. Gen Relativ Gravit 49, 65 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-017-2228-5

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