All homogeneous pure radiation spacetimes satisfy the Einstein-Maxwell equations

Abstract

It is shown that all homogeneous pure radiation solutions to the Einstein equations admit electromagnetic sources. This corrects an error in the literature.

2 pages, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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