THE MULTIPOLE MOMENTS OF THE RIGIDLY ROTATING-DISK OF DUST IN GENERAL-RELATIVITY

Authors
KLEINWACHTER A MEINEL R NEUGEBAUER G
Citation
A. Kleinwachter et al., THE MULTIPOLE MOMENTS OF THE RIGIDLY ROTATING-DISK OF DUST IN GENERAL-RELATIVITY, Physics letters. A, 200(2), 1995, pp. 82-86
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
200
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
82 - 86
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1995)200:2<82:TMMOTR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The gravitational multipole moments of the asymptotically flat global solution to Einstein's equations describing a rigidly rotating disk of dust are calculated and discussed. The so-called rotational multipole moments (higher than the angular momentum) do not vanish. Hence the c onjecture that these moments appear only for differentially rotating b odies proves to be false.