A new interpretation of the NUT metric in general relativity
- 1 July 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 66 (1), 145-151
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100044807
Abstract
The NUT metric is interpreted as the field of (a) a mass around the origin of coordinates, and (b) a semi-infinite massless source of angular momentum.Keywords
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