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A family of cylindrically symmetric solutions to Einstein-Maxwell equations

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A family of cylindrically symmetric new solutions to Einstein-Maxwell equations is obtained by using the Newman-Penrose formalism. The electromagnetic fields in this family are nonnull, and the Weyl tensor of the metrics is of Petrov type II.

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  1. Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China

    Canbin Liang

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Liang, C. A family of cylindrically symmetric solutions to Einstein-Maxwell equations. Gen Relat Gravit 27, 669–677 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02108069

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