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Matching van Stockum dust to Papapetrou vacuum

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-03-21 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Addressing a long-standing problem, we show that every van Stockum dust can be matched to a 1-parametric family of non-static Papapetrou vacuum metrics, and the converse. The boundary, if existing, is determined by vanishing of certain first-order invariant on the vacuum side. Moreover, we establish a relation to Ehlers and Kramer--Neugebauer transformations, which allows us to look for dust clouds with a prescribed boundary. Explicit examples include the Bonnor metric and a new vacuum exterior to the Lanczos--van Stockum dust metric, as well as dust clouds with nontrivial topology.

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@article{arxiv.2207.04740,
  title  = {Matching van Stockum dust to Papapetrou vacuum},
  author = {Michal Marvan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04740},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure. New in version 2: Sections 4, 8, 9, 10