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Chinea, F.J. (1983). Bäcklund transformations in general relativity. In: Wolf, K.B. (eds) Nonlinear Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-12730-5_15
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