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The stability of Killing–Cauchy horizons in colliding plane wave space-times
It is confirmed rigorously that the Killing–Cauchy horizons, which sometimes occur in space-times representing the collision and subsequent interaction of plane gravitational waves in a Minkowski background, are
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Null Limits of the C-Metric
The C-metric is usually understood as describing two black holes which accelerate in opposite directions under the action of some conical singularity. Here, we examine all the solutions of this type which repr...
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Null Limits of Generalised Bonnor-Swaminarayan Solutions
The Bonnor-Swaminarayan solutions are boost-rotation symmetric space-times which describe the motion of pairs of accelerating particles which are possibly connected to strings (struts). In an explicit and unif...
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The Extensions of Gravitational Soliton Solutions with Real Poles
We analyse vacuum gravitational“soliton” solutions with real poles in thecosmological context. It is well known that thesesolutions contain singularities on certain nullhypersurfaces. Using a Kasner seed solut...
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Perfect fluid space-times with a two-dimensional orthogonally transitive group of homothetic motions
We use theghp formalism to obtain perfect fluid space-times with a two-dimensional and orthogonally transitive group of proper homothetic motionsH 2, with the additional condition that the four-velocity of the fl...
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A class of plane symmetric dust solutions
A class of plane symmetric solutions containing dust is considered. It is argued that, however inhomogeneous the mass distribution, matter on each plane of symmetry has no net attraction to matter on other pla...
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Book review
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Physical interpretation of vacuum solutions of Einstein's equations. Part II. Time-dependent solutions
The study of interpretations of the vacuum solutions of Einstein's field equations is continued by considering some well known time-dependent solutions. Among these are metrics representing accelerating partic...
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Colliding plane gravitational waves with colinear polarization
The colliding plane wave problem is considered using an unconventional coordinate system. This permits a complete solution to be explicitly stated for the general case of arbitrary approaching waves with const...
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A new class of exact solutions of the vacuum quadratic Poincaré gauge field theory
A class of algebraically special exact solutions of the vacuum quadratic Poincaré gauge field theory is presented. These solutions are of type III and type N and have a nonexpanding, shear-free and twist-free ...
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The application of spin coefficient techniques in the vacuum quadratic Poincaré gauge field theory
The vacuum field equations of the quadratic Poincaré gauge field theory are expressed in the spin coefficient formalism of Newman and Penrose. These are differential identities involving curvature and torsion ...
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Algebraically special, nonaligned, non-null Einstein-Maxwell fields
A class of algebraically special non-null electrovac solutions is presented, in which the repeated principal null congruence is shear free, twist free, and geodesic, and is not aligned with a principal null di...
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A spin-coefficient approach to Weyssenhoff fluids in Einstein-Cartan theory
The generalized Newman-Penrose formalism is used to analyze semiclassical aligned spin fluids satisfying the Weyssenhoff restriction in the framework of Einstein-Cartan theory. Some general properties are deri...
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Neutrino fields in Einstein-Cartan theory
The spin-coefficient formalism presented elsewhere is here applied to classical neutrino fields in Einstein-Cartan theory. It is shown that the neutrino current vector is tangent to an expansion-free null geod...
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A Newman-Penrose-type formalism for space-times with torsion
The familiar Newman-Penrose formalism, in which the curvature of space-time is represented in terms of spin coefficients, is here extended to include the possibility of an asymmetric connection. It is hoped th...
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On the propagation of photons and neutrinos in curved space-time
It is shown using a classical wave theory approach that photons and neutrinos have different propagation properties in curved space-time. It is also shown that neutrinos have the anomalous property that the si...
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Neutrino radiation in spherically-symmetric gravitational fields. III. Comparison with photon radiation fields
The gravitational properties of spherically-symmetric photon and neutrino radiation fields are compared and found to be identical. A model for the photon radiation field made up of incoherent radiation is firs.....
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Neutrino radiation in spherically-symmetric gravitational fields II. The structure of the radiation field
It is shown that the neutrino radiation field emitted by a star may be described by Vaidya's radiating Schwarzschild metric. The gravitational energy shift of the neutrino field is also considered, both in ter.....
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Neutrino radiation in spherically-symmetric gravitational fields I. The energy-momentum tensor for the one-neutrino and many-particle neutrino field
The physical situation of a star emitting neutrinos is considered. Some difficulties in the classical theory are mentioned, and a more detailed approach to the properties of neutrino radiation in general relat.....
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Gravitational radiation and neutrinos
A class of neutrino-gravitational fields with zero energy-momentum tensor is defined. These space-times may also be interpreted as describing gravitational waves and are of Petrov typeD orN. A wave-like example o...