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This reprinting of a paper by Kerr and Schild, first published in 1965 in a conference volume that is difficult to get hold of today, has been selected by the Editors of General Relativity and Gravitation for publication in the Golden Oldies series of the journal. It is the only publication showing how the Kerr solution was originally arrived at. In this reprint the editors have added several footnotes that update the references to the literature. The paper is accompanied by an editorial note written by A. Krasiński, E.Verdaguer and R. P. Kerr, and by the biography of Kerr written by A. Krasiński.
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Editorial responsibility: A. Krasiński, e-mail: akr@camk.edu.pl.
An editorial note to this paper and a biography can be found in this issue preceding this Golden Oldie and online via doi:10.1007/s10714-009-0856-0.
Original paper: R. P. Kerr and A. Schild, in: Atti del Convegno sulla Relativita Generale: Problemi dell’Energia e Onde Gravitazionali. G. Barbèra Editore, Firenze 1965, pp. 1–12. Reprinted with the kind permission of R. P. Kerr. The publishers of the original text (their present name is Giunti) no longer hold the copyright.
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Kerr, R.P., Schild, A. Republication of: A new class of vacuum solutions of the Einstein field equations. Gen Relativ Gravit 41, 2485–2499 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-009-0857-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-009-0857-z