Ellipsoidal shapes in general relativity: general definitions and an application

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/330MaRDI QIDQ4457641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors József Zsigrai

Publication date 25 March 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0301019

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsoidgeneral relativistic metrics with symmetriesperfect-fluid configurationRiemannian 3-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: A generalization of the notion of ellipsoids to curved Riemannian spaces is given and the possibility to use it in describing the shapes of rotating bodies in general relativity is examined. As an illustrative example, stationary, axisymmetric perfect-fluid spacetimes with a so-called confocal inside ellipsoidal symmetry are investigated in detail under the assumption that the 4-velocity of the fluid is parallel to a time-like Killing vector field. A class of perfect-fluid metrics representing interior NUT-spacetimes is obtained along with a vacuum solution with a non-zero cosmological constant.

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