On the parameters of Lewis metric for the Lewis class

Details On the parameters of Lewis metric for the Lewis class On the parameters of Lewis metric for the Lewis class

1996-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9607057v1

Class.Quant.Grav.12:111-118,1995

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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10.1088/0264-9381/12/1/009

The physical and geometrical meaning of the four parameters of Lewis metric for the Lewis class are investigated. Matching this spacetime to a completely anisotropic, rigidly rotating, fluid cylinder, we obtain from the junction conditions that the four parameters are related to the vorticity of the source. Furthermore it is shown that one of the parameters must vanish if one wishes to reduce the Lewis class to a locally static spacetime. Using the Cartan scalars it is shown that the Lewis class does not include globally Minkowski as special class, and that it is not locally equivalent to the Levi-Civita metric. Also it is shown that, in contrast with the Weyl class, the parameter responsible for the vorticity appears explicitly in the expression for the Cartan scalars. Finally, to enhance our understanding of the Lewis class, we analyse the van Stockum metric.

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