Abstract
A study covering some aspects of the Einstein–Rosen metric is presented. The electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor are calculated. It is shown that there are no purely magnetic E-R spacetimes, and also that a purely electric E-R spacetime is necessarily static. The geodesics equations are found and circular ones are analyzed in detail. The super-Poynting and the “Lagrangian” Poynting vectors are calculated and their expressions are found for two specific examples. It is shown that for a pulse-type solution, both expressions describe an inward radially directed flow of energy, far behind the wave front. The physical significance of such an effect is discussed.
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