English

Static spacetimes with prescribed multipole moments; a proof of a conjecture by Geroch

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

In this paper we give sufficient conditions on a sequence of multipole moments for a static spacetime to exist with precisely these moments. The proof is constructive in the sense that a metric having prescribed multipole moments up to a given order can be calculated. Since these sufficient conditions agree with already known necessary conditions, this completes the proof of a long standing conjecture due to Geroch.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.4247,
  title  = {Static spacetimes with prescribed multipole moments; a proof of a conjecture by Geroch},
  author = {Magnus Herberthson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4247},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages