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ENERGETICS OF THE EINSTEIN–ROSEN SPACETIME 1∗ 1† 2‡ 3,4§ L. Herrera , A. Di Prisco , J. Carot and N. O. Santos 1Escuela de F´ısica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. 2Departament de F´ısica, Universitat Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain 3Laborat´orio Nacional de Computa¸c˜ao Cient´ıfica, 25651-070 Petr´opolis RJ, Brazil. 4LERMA/CNRS-FRE 2460, Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie, ERGA, Boˆıte 142, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris Cedex 05, France. June 13, 2006 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 space- times, and also that a purely electric E–R spacetime is necessarily static. The geodesics equations are found and circular ones are ana- lyzed 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. ∗e-mail: laherrera@movistar.net.ve †e-mail: adiprisc@fisica.ciens.ucv.ve ‡e-mail: jcarot@uib.es §e-mail: nos@cbpf.br and santos@ccr.jussieu.fr 1 1 Introduction Einstein–Rosen (E–R) spacetime [1] has attracted the attention of researchers for man