Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes - Review

Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes are the only locally asymptotically fla t axially symmetric electrovacuum spacetimes with a further symmetry that a re radiative. They are realized by uniformly accelerated particles of vario us kinds or black holes. Their general properties are summarized. Several e xamples of boost-rotation symmetric solutions of the Maxwell and Einstein e quations are studied: uniformly accelerated electric and magnetic multipole s, the Bonnor-Swaminarayan solutions, the C-metric and the spinning C-metri c.