Galactic metrics

DOI10.1023/B:GERG.0000046830.85831.4AMaRDI QIDQ1768422zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors M. D. Roberts

Publication date 15 March 2005

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209456

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicscircular velocitymetric constraint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: The paths of stars in galaxies have circular velocity independent of their distance from the centre of the galaxy. Newtonian mechanics with a logarithmic potential has such paths. In relativity these paths can be taken to be geodesics and this requirement places a resticting equation on the spacetime metric. This equation has a non-unique spherically symmetric solution that in the newtonian limit has a logarithmic potential. It also can be solved in terms of a conformal factor. In particular it has solutions which are conformal to the vacuum-Einstein solutions and such spacetimes are solutions to the vacuum-Bach equations. Therefore it is suggested that the Bach equations describe dynamics on galactic lenght scales.

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