Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes - review
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes are the only locally asymptotically flat axially symmetric electrovacuum spacetimes with a further symmetry that are radiative. They are realized by uniformly accelerated particles of various kinds or black holes. Their general properties are summarized. Several examples of boost-rotation symmetric solutions of the Maxwell and Einstein equations are studied: uniformly accelerated electric and magnetic multipoles, the Bonnor-Swaminarayan solutions, the C-metric and the spinning C-metric.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0003067,
title = {Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes - review},
author = {V. Pravda and A. Pravdova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0003067},
year = {2008}
}
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30 pages, 11 eps figures