Stationary spacetimes and the Simon tensor.
For stationary vacuum spacetimes the Bianchi identities of the second kind equate the Simon tensor to the Simon-Mars tensor, the latter having a clear geometrical interpretation. The equivalence of these two tensors is broken in the nonvacuum case by additional source energy-momentum terms, but absorbing these source terms into a redefinition of the Simon tensor restores the equality. Explicit examples are discussed for electrovacuum and rigidly rotating matter fields.
| Main Author: | Bini, D. |
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| Other Authors: | Jantzen, R. |
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| Language: | English |
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2004
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http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?url=https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:177400 |