The Null and KS Limits of the Szekeres Metric
Sep, 199610 pages
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- Class.Quant.Grav. 13 (1996) 2537-2546
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We take the null limit of the Szekeres metric, and obtain a generalization of the Kinnersley rocket metric. It may be viewed as being an inhomogeneous assembly of 2-surfaces that have intrisic spherical, planar or pseudo-spherical symmetry. This new metric inherits many properties of the Szekeres metric, so it has no Killing vectors, no quadrupole moment, and emits no gravitational radiation. We also show that the Kantowski - Sachs-type Szekeres metric is a regular limit of the Lema?tre - Tolman type, thus unifying the two Szekeres types.Note:
- See corrections in W.B. Bonnor's review, Math.Rev.97:4592,1997
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