Monopole and dipole layers in curved spacetimes: Formalism and examples

Article

Monopole and dipole layers in curved spacetimes: Formalism and examples

Gürlebeck N.; Bičák J.

Phys. Rev. D 83, 124023 (2011)

Abstract

The discontinuities of electromagnetic test fields generated by general layers of electric and magnetic
monopoles and dipoles are investigated in general curved spacetimes. The equivalence of electric currents
and magnetic dipoles is discussed. The results are used to describe exact ‘‘Schwarzschild disk’’ solutions
endowed with such sources. The resulting distributions of charge and dipole densities on the disks are
corroborated using the membrane paradigm.

Institute authors

Bičák, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/09/0772 — Current problems of gravitation, general relativity and relativistic astrophysics

BibTeX

@article{UTF455,
  author        = {Gürlebeck N. and Bičák J.},
  title         = {{Monopole and dipole layers in curved spacetimes: Formalism and examples}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {83},
  pages         = {124023},
  year          = {2011},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevD.83.124023},
}