Abstract
The present work is a continuation of our earlier work on the charged dust sources of purely electromagnetic origin for static axisymmetric and static spherically-symmetric fields. Here we have extended the above work to the case of generalized static metric and have shown that a static charged dust distribution, irrespective of any symmetry conditions, can be only of purelly electromagnetic origin. Incidentally, it follows from this result itself that the ‘Weyl-Majumdar-Papapetrou’ class of static charged dust sources, which form an important class of astrophysical systems, are also of purely electromagnetic origin.
Article PDF
We’re sorry, something doesn't seem to be working properly.
Please try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, please contact support so we can address the problem.
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Majumdar, S. D.: 1947,Phys. Rev. 72, 390.
Papapetrou, A.: 1947,Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. A 51, 191.
Ponce de Leon, J.: 1987a,J. Maths. Phys. 28, 410.
Ponce de Leon, J.: 1987b,Gen. Rel. Grav. 19, 797.
Ponce de Leon, J.: 1988,J. Maths. Phys. 29.
Rohrlich, F.: 1965,Classical Charged Particles, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Ch. 2 and 6.
Synge, J. L.: 1960,Relativity: The General Theory, North-Holland Publ. Co. Amsterdam, Ch. 8 and 10.
Tiwari, R. N. and Ray, Saibal: 1991,Astrophys. Space Sci 180, 143.
Tiwari, R. N., Rao, J. R., and Kanakmedala, R. S.: 1984,Phys. Rev. D30, 489.
Tiwari, R. N., Rao, J. R., and Kanakmedala, R. R.: 1986,Phys. Rev. D34, 1205.
Tiwari, R. N., Rao, J. R., and Ray, Saibal: 1991,Astrophys. Space Sci. 178, 119.
Weyl, H.: 1917,Ann. Phys. 54, 117.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Tiwari, R.N., Ray, S. Static charged dust distributions: Sources of purely electromagnetic origin. Astrophys Space Sci 182, 105–110 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00646446
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00646446