CLASSICAL LIMITS OF BOOST-ROTATION SYMMETRIC SPACETIMES

Conference paper

CLASSICAL LIMITS OF BOOST-ROTATION SYMMETRIC SPACETIMES

Kofroň, D.; Bičák, J.

In: WSPC - Proceedings (2010)

Abstract

Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes are exceptional as they are the only exact asymp-
totically flat solutions to the Einstein equations describing spatially bounded sources
(“point-like” particles, black holes) undergoing non-trivial motion (“uniform accelera-
tion”) with radiation. We construct the Newtonian limit of these spacetimes: it yields
fields of uniformly accelerated sources in classical mechanics. We also study the special-
relativistic limit of

Keywords

boost-rotation symmetry, C-metric, Newtonian limit

Institute authors

BibTeX

@inproceedings{UTF472,
  author        = {Kofroň, D. and Bičák, J.},
  title         = {{CLASSICAL LIMITS OF BOOST-ROTATION SYMMETRIC SPACETIMES}},
  booktitle     = {WSPC - Proceedings},
  year          = {2010},
}