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Spaces allowing a normal, shear-free, expanding congruence of isotropic geodesics are considered. A metric form allowing the simultaneous solution of the Einstein and Maxwell solutions for an isotropic electromagnetic field is derived in explicit form.
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Some of the nomenclature and definitions encountered in this paper were specified in Part I [1].
Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 32–35, May, 1973.
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Razgovorov, N.N. Electromagnetic radiation in the general theory of relativity. Soviet Physics Journal 16, 619–622 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898795
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