• PLANE SYMMETRIC NULL FLUIDS AND NULL CURRENTS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY

Abstract

In this paper, Einstein-Maxwell’s equations in the presence of null fluids and null currents have been investigated in a space-time having plane symmetry introduced by Takeno[Tensor N.S. Vol.7, No.2, pp 97-102, 1957]which was studied and defined by Taub[Ann.Math.53,472 (1951)].It has been found that a class of solutions exists which includes some particular cases.Furthermore it is credited that the space-times with plane symmetry,representing plane waves, no null electric currents is possible which corroborates the observation of Professor Bonnor[5]: Plane wave solutions of Maxwell’s equations are source free and physically this is taken to mean that the sources occure at infinity.