General Relativistic Gravitational Field of a Rigidly Rotating Disk of Dust: Solution in Terms of Ultraelliptic Functions

Gernot Neugebauer, Reinhard Meinel

Physical Review Letters · 1995 · 184 citations · 4 references

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In a recent paper we presented analytic expressions for the axis potential, the disk metric, and the surface mass density of the global solution to Einstein's field equations describing a rigidly rotating disk of dust. Here we add the complete solution in terms of ultraelliptic functions and quadratures.

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