Extremely Charged Static Dust Distributions in General Relativity

Abstract

Conformo static charged dust distributions are investigated in the framework of General Relativity. Einstein's equations reduce to a nonlinear version of Poisson's equations and Maxwell's eqations imply the equaltiy of the charge and mass densities. An interior solution to the extreme Reissner-Nordstrom metric is given. Dust distributions concentrated on regular surfaces are discussed and a complete solution is given for a spherical thin shell.