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On the gravitational field induced by static electromagnetic sources

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is argued that static electromagnetic sources induce Weyl-Majumdar-Papapetrou solutions for the spacetime metric. The acceleration in such fields has a term many orders of magnitude stronger than usual perturbative terms. Two electrostatic and two magnetostatic examples are given.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0502047,
  title  = {On the gravitational field induced by static electromagnetic sources},
  author = {Boyko V. Ivanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0502047},
  year   = {2007}
}

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18 pages, Revtex4