Abstract
We construct a four-parameter family of inhomogeneous cosmological models, which contains two recently derived three-parameter families as special cases. The corresponding exact vacuum solution to Einstein's field equations is obtained with methods from soliton theory. We also study properties of these models and find that they combine all interesting features of both earlier solution families: general regularity within the maximal globally hyperbolic region, particular singular cases in which a curvature singularity with a directional behaviour forms, a highly non-trivial causal structure, and Cauchy horizons whose null generators can have both closed or non-closed orbits. In the second part of the paper, we discuss the generalisation from vacuum to electrovacuum. Moreover, we also present a family of exact solutions for that case and study its properties.
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