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On a Simple Representation of the Kinnersley-Chitre Metric

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-09-12 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A concise form of the Kinnersley-Chitre five-parameter metric for a spinning mass is obtained by exploiting a remarkable similarity between the metric's factor structure and the analogous structure of the Tomimatsu-Sato solutions with even distortion parameter delta. The corresponding general subfamily of asymptotically flat spacetimes containing four arbitrary real parameters is considered, and all configurations describing two extreme Kerr sources separated by a strut are identified and briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4687,
  title  = {On a Simple Representation of the Kinnersley-Chitre Metric},
  author = {V. S. Manko and E. Ruiz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4687},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures, extended section 4, reference added, accepted for Prog. Theor. Phys