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The space-time metric inside a rotating cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

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

Abstract

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

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1971

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