Rigidly Rotating Strings in Stationary Spacetimes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
In this paper we study the motion of a rigidly rotating Nambu-Goto test string in a stationary axisymmetric background spacetime. As special examples we consider the rigid rotation of strings in flat spacetime, where explicit analytic solutions can be obtained, and in the Kerr spacetime where we find an interesting new family of test string solutions. We present a detailed classification of these solutions in the Kerr background.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612199,
title = {Rigidly Rotating Strings in Stationary Spacetimes},
author = {V. Frolov and S. Hendy and J. P. De Villiers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612199},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages, Latex, 9 figures, revised for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity