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A Note on the Transformability of Spherically Symmetric Metrics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Paul Kustaanheimo
Paul Kustaanheimo
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Helsinki, Finland.
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It is shown that every spherically symmetric metric can be transformed into the isotropic form. As illustration an example is given.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , October 1953 , pp. 13 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1953

References

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