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Geodesic Form of Schwarzschild's External Solution

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THE line-elements usually appearing in relativistic cosmological studies are particular cases of the geodesic line-element1, obtainable from the most general form by subjecting the co-ordinate system to the restrictions2,

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  1. Eisenhart, L. P., "Riemannian Geometry, 57 (1926).

  2. Weyl, H., "Space, Time and Matter", 275 (1922).

  3. Narlikar, V. V., Mon. Not. Roy. Ast. Soc, 93, 263 (1936).

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NARLIKAR, V., KARMARKAR, K. Geodesic Form of Schwarzschild's External Solution. Nature 157, 515–516 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157515c0

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