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Matching conditions in the Einstein-Cartan theory of gravitation

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In this paper matching and junction conditions in the Einstein-Cartan theory are presented. It is shown that a Weyssenhoff fluid sphere collapses to a singularity.

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    W. Arkuszewski

  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

    W. Kopczyński

  3. Department of Theoretical Physics, Moscow University, Moscow, USSR

    V. N. Ponomariev

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  1. W. Arkuszewski
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Communicated by J. Ehlers

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant GF-36217.

Part of this work was done during the stay of the author in Department of Mechanics, Paris University VI and in Collège de France.

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Arkuszewski, W., Kopczyński, W. & Ponomariev, V.N. Matching conditions in the Einstein-Cartan theory of gravitation. Commun.Math. Phys. 45, 183–190 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01629248

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