Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics

1963/09/01 by R. P. Kerr · 17 citations
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paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.11.237

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Abstract

This article appears in the following collections:Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective2008 marked PRL’s 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations a collection of milestone Letters was started. The collection contains Letters that have made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research.2015 - General Relativity’s CentennialThe editors of the Physical Review journals have curated a collection of landmark papers on General Relativity to celebrate its centennial.

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