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1. Steele, J.D., On Generalised p.p. waves, Preprint, Monash University (1989) (Compressed Postscript)
2. Steele, J.D., On Homogeneous Pure Radiation Solutions , Class. Quantum Grav. 7 (1990) p. L81
3. Steele, J.D. and Hall, G.S., Homothety Groups in Space-Time, Gen. Rel. Grav. 22 (1990) p.457 (Compressed Postscript)
4. Steele, J.D. and McIntosh C.B.G., All Bianchi I metrics admitting a Homothety, Class. Quantum Grav. 8 (1991) p. 1173 (Compressed Postscript)
5. Steele, J.D., Simply-Transitive Homothety Groups, Gen. Rel. Grav. 23 (1991) p. 811
(Compressed Postscript). For corrections to this paper see the 1998 preprint Simply-Transitive Homothety Groups and the Ricci tensor, (Compressed Postscript).
6. Steele, J.D. and Hall, G.S., Conformal Vector Fields in General Relativity, J. Math. Phys, 32 (1991) p. 1847
(Compressed Postscript)
7. Steele, J.D., On Simply-Transitive Homothety Groups, Proceedings of the fourth Monash Workshop on Relativity, ed. A.W.C. Lun, Monash University Press, Melbourne (1993). (cut down version of reference 5 above)
8. Steele, J.D. and Lun, A.W.C, On Rational Representation of Stationary Axisymmetric Vacuum metrics I: Cubic and Quartic coordinates" Relativity Today: proceedings of the fourth Hungarian Workshop in Relativity ed. Z. Perjes, Nova Science (New York) (1994).
9. Steele, J.D. and Lun, A.W.C, Accelerated coordinates Relativity Today: proceedings of the fifth Hungarian Workshop in Relativity ed. Z. Perjes and C. Hoensaelars, Akademiai Kiado (Budapest) (1997)
10. Steele, J.D. Setting linear algebra problems Preprint, University of New South Wales, PM 97/2 (1997)
updated version (2003). Submitted to The Mathematical Gazette (Compressed Postscript) MAPLE routines:
• makematrix (based on linalg package).
• MakeMatrix (based on LinearAlgebra package).
11. Steele, J.D. Killing vectors with null bivectors Class. Quantum Grav. 18 (2001) p. 3963
12. Steele, J.D., A formalism for spacetimes with a homothety. Class. Quantum Grav. 19 (2002) p.259. My Maple procedures for calculating the Penrose-Rindler spin coefficients are available: written for Maple 6. (Bit unsure about some bits of them, but they work)
13. Steele, J.D. Symmetries in some Newman-Tamburino metrics Class. Quantum Grav. 21 (2004) p.3587-3592.
14. Steele, J.D. Calculating symmetries in Newman-Tamburino metrics. This is really just an extended version of the previous paper.
15. Steele, J.D. Twisting type N vacuum solutions with a symmetry. (in preparation)
16. Steele, J.D. Type I metrics with a transitive homothety group. (in preparation)

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