Monday, January 16, 2012

1201.2862 (L. Herrera et al.)

Cylindrically Symmetric Relativistic Fluids: A General Study Based on Structure Scalars    [PDF]

L. Herrera, A. Di Prisco J. Ospino
The full set of equations governing the structure and the evolution of self--gravitating cylindrically symmetric dissipative fluids with anisotropic stresses, is written down in terms of scalar quantities obtained from the orthogonal splitting of the Riemann tensor (structure scalars), in the context of general relativity. These scalars which have been shown previously (in the spherically symmetric case) to be related to fundamental properties of the fluid distribution, such as: energy density, energy density inhomogeneity, local anisotropy of pressure, dissipative flux, active gravitational mass etc, are shown here to play also a very important role in the dynamics of cylindrically symmetric fluids. A definition of mass function is proposed which may be expressed through some structure scalars and represents a reminiscence of the mass function in the spherically symmetric case. It is also shown that in the static case, all possible solutions to Einstein equations may be expressed explicitly through three of these scalars.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2862

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