Generalized Vaidya Metrics

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Hughston, L P. 1971. Generalized Vaidya Metrics. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 4(4), pp. 267-271. ISSN 0020-7748 [Article]

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00674279

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We investigate criteria under which one may construct the energy tensor of a null radiation field from an algebraically special vacuum metric. The field bears the same relationship to the original metric as does Vaidya's to Schwarzschild's. As an example we generate a class of null radiation fields from a class of vacuum metrics without symmetry discovered by Robinson and Robinson.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00674279