Abstract
We show how to use the quasi-Maxwell formalism to obtain solutions of Einstein’s field equations corresponding to homogeneous cosmologies—namely Einstein’s universe, Gödel’s universe, and the Ozsvath-Farnsworth-Kerr class I solutions—written in frames for which the associated observers are stationary.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank Filipe Mena and José Mourão for carefully reading an early version of this work. The second author (J.N.) was partially supported by FCT/POCTI/FEDER.
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