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Class of ''noncanonical'' vacuum metrics with two commuting Killing vectors

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States)

I present a class of vacuum metrics with a pair of commuting Killing vectors which do not possess the property of orthogonal transitivity. The solution is Petrov type II with expansion-, twist-, and shear-free geodesic rays and includes the van Stockum exterior metric as a limiting case.

Research Organization:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
OSTI ID:
6319632
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States) Vol. 42:7; ISSN PRLTA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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