Abstract
It is proved that all stationary and axially symmetric metrics that are rational in prolate-spheroidal coordinates have a simple canonical form. This follows directly from a theorem for 2 x 2 matrices with multinomial elements and has nothing to do with the field equations.
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Published: 1 January 1989
First available in Project Euclid: 18 November 2014
zbMATH: 0681.53048
MathSciNet: MR1020799
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