Vacuum C metric and the gravitational Stark effect

D. Bini^*
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone,” CNR, I-00161 Rome, Italy
International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics-I.C.R.A., University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Rome, Italy

C. Cherubini^†
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, England, United Kingdom;
Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello,” Università di Salerno, I-84081, Italy;
International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics-I.C.R.A., University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Rome, Italy

B. Mashhoon^‡
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA

^*Electronic address: binid@icra.it

^†Present address: Faculty of Engineering, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, via E. Longoni 47, 00155 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: cherubini@icra.it

^‡Electronic address: MashhoonB@missouri.edu