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Calculation of, and bounds for, the multipole moments of stationary spacetimes

Thomas Bäckdahl, Magnus Herberthson

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0606115

Abstract

In this paper the multipole moments of stationary asymptotically flat spacetimes are considered. We show how the tensorial recursion of Geroch and Hansen can be replaced by a scalar recursion on R2. We also give a bound on the multipole moments. This gives a proof of the "necessary part" of a long standing conjecture due to Geroch.

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