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The physical meaning of the “boost-rotation symmetric” solutions within the general interpretation of Einstein's theory of gravitation

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The answer to the question, what physical meaning should be attributed to the so-called boost-rotation symmetric exact solutions to the field equations of general relativity, is provided within the general interpretation scheme for the “theories of relativity,” based on group theoretical arguments, and set forth by Erich Kretschmann already in the year 1917.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta” and CNR, Pavia, Italy

    Salvatore Antoci

  2. Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Dierck-Ekkehard Liebscher

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta”, Pavia, Italy

    Luigi Mihich

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Antoci, S., Liebscher, DE. & Mihich, L. The physical meaning of the “boost-rotation symmetric” solutions within the general interpretation of Einstein's theory of gravitation. Gen Relativ Gravit 38, 15–22 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-005-0206-9

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