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A class of inhomogeneous cosmological models

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All solutions of Einstein's field equations representing irrotational dust and possessing a metric of the formds 2=dt 2−e 2α dr 2−e 2β(dy 2+dz 2) are found. The new metrics generalize the earlier Bondi-Tolman, Eardley-Liang-Sachs, and Kantowski-Sachs cosmological models.

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Communicated by J. Ehlers

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Szekeres, P. A class of inhomogeneous cosmological models. Commun.Math. Phys. 41, 55–64 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608547

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