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The space-time metric inside a rotating cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. Davies  and
T. A. Caplan
H. Davies
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford
T. A. Caplan
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford
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Abstract

It is shown that the space-time region inside an axially symmetric, infinite, rotating, cylindrical mass distribution is necessarily Minkowskian.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , March 1971 , pp. 325 - 327
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1971

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