3 papers
gr-qc2005
Global aspects of accelerating and rotating black hole space-times
J. B. Griffiths, J. Podolsky
The complete family of exact solutions representing accelerating and rotating black holes with possible electromagnetic charges and a NUT parameter is known in terms of a modified…
gr-qc2005
A new look at the Plebanski-Demianski family of solutions
J. B. Griffiths, J. Podolsky
The Plebanski-Demianski metric, and those that can be obtained from it by taking coordinate transformations in certain limits, include the complete family of space-times of type D…
gr-qc2004
A snapping cosmic string in a de Sitter or anti-de Sitter universe
J. Podolsky, J. B. Griffiths
We present and describe an exact solution of Einstein's equations which represents a snapping cosmic string in a vacuum background with a cosmological constant . The snapping of…