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Majumdar-Papapetrou class of nonstatic cylindrically symmetric Brans-Dicke-Maxwell fields

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We have obtained relations between certain components of the metric and the electromagnetic potentials for source-free Brans-Dicke-Maxwell fields described by a nonstatic cylindrically symmetric Einstein-Rosen metric. These are important, in the sense that they generate a class of solutions that in a way can be said to belong to the class generated by similar relations obtained by Majumdar [1] and Papapetrou [2] for generalized static Einstein-Maxwell fields. The relations have further been used to reduce the B-D Maxwell equations to B-D vacuum equations and vice versa.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, 721302, Kharagpur, India

    R. N. Tiwari & P. P. Rao

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Tiwari, R.N., Rao, P.P. Majumdar-Papapetrou class of nonstatic cylindrically symmetric Brans-Dicke-Maxwell fields. Gen Relat Gravit 10, 53–60 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757023

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