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The uniqueness of the Bertotti-Robinson electromagnetic universe
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By employing the spin coefficient formalism of Newman and Penrose a direct proof is obtained that the Bertotti-Robinson electromagnetic universe is the only conformally flat solution of the source-free Einstein-Maxwell equations for nonnull fields.
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“All conformally flat electrovac metrics with a vanishing cosmological constant Λ have been known for a long time [45,46,47,48].”
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- Authors
- Tariq, N., & Tupper, B. O. J.
- Venue
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Published
- 1974-12-01
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 2232-2235
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
- 1089-7658
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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