Non-vacuum twisting type-N metrics

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 341-351

  Nurowski, Paweł ^a   Plebański, Jerzy F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

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EID: 0035530873     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/18/2/311     Document Type: Article

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