THE EXACT SOLUTION TO THE EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATION

LANCZOS, KORNEL.

Über eine stationäre Kosmologie im Sinne der Einsteinschen Gravitationtheorie.

(Berlin, Julius Springer, 1924). 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik", 21-22 band, 1924. Find and clean. Pp. 73-110. [Offered volume: Pp. 382, V, 416.]

First printing of Lanczos exceelingly important paper in which he discovered an exact solution of the Einstein field equation which represents a cylindrically symmetric rigidly rotating configuration of dust particles. This was later rediscovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum and is known today as the van Stockum dust. It is one of the simplest known exact solutions in general relativity and regarded as an important example, in part because it exhibits closed timelike curves.

Lanczos served as assistant to Albert Einstein during the period of 1928-29.

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