The Wahlquist metric cannot describe an isolated rotating body
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
It is proven that the Wahlquist perfect fluid space-time cannot be smoothly joined to an exterior asymptotically flat vacuum region. The proof uses a power series expansion in the angular velocity, to a precision of the second order. In this approximation, the Wahlquist metric is a special case of the rotating Whittaker space-time. The exterior vacuum domain is treated in a like manner. We compute the conditions of matching at the possible boundary surface in both the interior and the vacuum domain. The conditions for matching the induced metrics and the extrinsic curvatures are mutually contradictory.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9910001,
title = {The Wahlquist metric cannot describe an isolated rotating body},
author = {Michael Bradley and Gyula Fodor and Mattias Marklund and Zoltán Perjés},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9910001},
year = {2009}
}
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