Finding Gowdy's "Vacuum Spacetimes" Paper: Help Needed

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Ok, hopefully this is the right place to post about this. I'm writing a project on General Relativity and need access to a specific paper. I'm not very good at finding stuff online or in libraries. The paper is:

Gowdy, R. H.: "Vacuum Spacetimes with Two-parameter Spacelike Isometry Groups and Compact Invariant Hypersurfaces: Topologies and Boundary Conditions," Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 83, pp 203-241, 1974.

I'm on the authors website:

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rgowdy/gowdy.htm

and as you can see, he claims that it's available here:

http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/gr-qc

The only problem is, I can't for the life of me find it on that website. Secondly, once I find it, how the hell do I access it, most of them are blocked (even when I'm on my university network). This is the first time I've had to do any proper research for a project which is why I'm so bad at finding this sort of stuff.

Help please!
 
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latentcorpse said:
Ok, hopefully this is the right place to post about this. I'm writing a project on General Relativity and need access to a specific paper. I'm not very good at finding stuff online or in libraries.

Then, go to the library and talk to a librarian about finding stuff on-line and in libraries. This is important; do it!
latentcorpse said:
The paper is:

Gowdy, R. H.: "Vacuum Spacetimes with Two-parameter Spacelike Isometry Groups and Compact Invariant Hypersurfaces: Topologies and Boundary Conditions," Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 83, pp 203-241, 1974.

I'm on the authors website:

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rgowdy/gowdy.htm

and as you can see, he claims that it's available here:

http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/gr-qc

The only problem is, I can't for the life of me find it on that website. Secondly, once I find it

I suspect that this paper is not on and the arXiv, and, on his website, the author does not state that it is. Read carefully! Go to the library!