In physics, a homothetic vector field (sometimes homothetic collineation or homothety) is a projective vector field which satisfies the condition: where c is a real constant.
Homothetic vector fields find application in the study of singularities in general relativity.
They can also be used to generate new solutions for Einstein equations by similarity reduction.
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