New axially symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations (Q2276689)

A particular symmetry transformation is applied to two ``bad'' magnetostatic solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations containing the magnetic monopole term to obtain two asymptotically flat solutions describing already the exterior gravitational field of a massive magnetic dipole, one of them, defined in terms of the \textit{F. J. Ernst} potentials [Phys. Rev. 168, 1415-1417 (1968)] by the formulae \[ \epsilon =A_ - /A_+;\quad \phi =-iq^ 3(2xy+y^ 2+1)/A_+;\quad p^ 2+q^ 2=1,\quad A_{\mp}\equiv 4p(x\mp p)(x+y)^ 2\mp q^ 2[(1\pm px)(1+y^ 2)+2y(x\pm p)]; \] being the simplest possible magnetic dipole solution possessing the Schwarzschild pure vacuum limit. Stationary electrovacuum generalizations of the magnetostatic solutions obtained are then constructed with the aid of the \textit{D. Kramer} and \textit{G. Neugebauer} transformation [Ann. Physik 24, 59-61 (1969)]. These new three-parameter solutions become magnetostatic or electrostatic in the absence of, respectively, the electric charge or magnetic dipole moment; they do not have the stationary pure vacuum limit.