Motion of Test Bodies in General Relativity
- 1 January 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 5 (1) , 112-119
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1704055
Abstract
Two distributions in the sense of Schwartz are introduced to describe a test body. Papapetrou's equations for a pole‐dipole test body are derived in a coordinate‐independent manner. The supplementary condition S σμ U μ = 0 arises in a natural fashion in the course of the derivation. The method for treating test bodies with higher‐order poles is indicated.Keywords
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