The sources of the A and B degenerate static vacuum fields
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1572-9532
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Weyl metric ; line mass source
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Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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Physics
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Abstract We study some known static vacuum solutions of Einstein's equations, namely, the A and B metrics of Ehlers and Kundt. All of them have axial symmetry, so they can be transformed to the Weyl form. In Weyl coordinates log √−g 44 obeys a Laplace equation, and from this a source, calledthe Newtonian image source, can be identified. We use the image sources to give a possible interpretation to the metrics. The procedure is successful in some cases. In others it fails because the Weyl transform does not have reasonable properties at infinity.
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Electronic Resource
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