Response to Fackerell's Article

dc.creatorAlley, Carroll O.
dc.creatorYilmaz, Huseyin
dc.date2000-08-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:25:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:25:12Z
dc.descriptionE. D. Fackerell claims: 1) that Alley and Yilmaz treatment of parallel slabs in general relativity is wrong because the Yilmaz metric used is not a solution of the field equations of general relativity; 2) he also claims that the correct treatment of the parallel slab problem in general relativity must be based on the so-called Taub metric. We show below that both of Fackerell's claims are false. His first claim is based on his failure to distinguish the matter-free regions and the regions with matter. His second claim is based on his failure to recognize that for the Taub metric the left-hand side, hence also the right-hand side of the field equations, are identically zero everywhere. Thus no material systems can be treated via the Taub metric.
dc.description10 pages, LaTeX
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0008040
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0008040
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/33619
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleResponse to Fackerell's Article
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