Multipole moments in general relativity
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 12 (7) , 1025-1028
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/12/7/018
Abstract
It is proved that a stationary space-time for which all the angular momentum multipole moments vanish is static and that a static space-time for which all the mass multipole moments vanish is flat.Keywords
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