Race for the Kerr field

@misc{citeulike:3036741, abstract = {Roy P. Kerr has discovered his celebrated metric 45 years ago, yet the problem to find a generalization of the Schwarzschild metric for a rotating mass was faced much earlier. Lense and Thirring, Bach, Andress, Akeley, Lewis, van Stockum and others have tried to solve it or to find an approximative solution at least. In particular Achilles Papapetrou, from 1952 to 1961 in Berlin, was interested in an exact solution. He directed the author in the late autumn of 1959 to work on the problem. Why did these pre-Kerr attempts fail? Comments based on personal reminiscences and old notes.}, author = {Dautcourt, G. }, citeulike-article-id = {3036741}, eprint = {0807.3473}, keywords = {history, physics, relativity}, month = {Jul}, posted-at = {2008-07-23 12:52:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Race for the Kerr field}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3473}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:3036741 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3036741 TI - Race for the Kerr field N2 - Roy P. Kerr has discovered his celebrated metric 45 years ago, yet the problem to find a generalization of the Schwarzschild metric for a rotating mass was faced much earlier. Lense and Thirring, Bach, Andress, Akeley, Lewis, van Stockum and others have tried to solve it or to find an approximative solution at least. In particular Achilles Papapetrou, from 1952 to 1961 in Berlin, was interested in an exact solution. He directed the author in the late autumn of 1959 to work on the problem. Why did these pre-Kerr attempts fail? Comments based on personal reminiscences and old notes. KW - history KW - physics KW - relativity AU - Dautcourt, G PY - 2008/Jul/22/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3473 ER -