Sources for the Majumdar-Papapetrou space-times

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1998
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Source Title
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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0556-2821
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1089-4918
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American Physical Society
Volume
58
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4
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440011 - 440013
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English
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Einstein's field equations are solved exactly for static charged dust distributions. These solutions generalize the Majumdar-Papapetrou metrics. Maxwell's equations lead to the equality of charge and mass densities of the dust distrubition. Einstein's equations reduce to a nonlinear version of Poisson's equation.

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