The sources of the A and B degenerate static vacuum fields

DOI10.1007/BF02109523zbMATH Open0875.83042arXivgr-qc/9404055OpenAlexW2065238050MaRDI QIDQ674848FDOQ674848

Authors: M. A. P. Martins 

Publication date: 14 May 1997

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

Abstract: We attempt to a physical interpretation of some known static vacuum solutions of Einstein's equations, namely, the A and B metrics of Ehlers and Kundt. All of them have axial symmetry, so they can be transformed to the Weyl form. In Weyl coordinates $lnsqrt-g_{44}$ obeys a Laplace equation, and from this a source, called The Newtonian image source can be identified. We use the image sources to interpret the metrics. The procedure is sucessful in some cases. In others it fails because the Weyl transform does not have reasonable properties at infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404055

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsaxial symmetryline mass sourcestatic vacuum solutionsWeyl coordinatesWeyl metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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