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Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics
Phys. Rev. Lett. 11, 237 – Published 1 September, 1963
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.237
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- E. Newman, L. Tamburino, and T. Unti (to be published)