Geodesics for the NUT metric and gravitational monopoles
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Geodesics for the NUT metric and gravitational monopoles
zbMATH Open document ID: 0669.53061
DOI: 10.1007/BF00758986
author: Robert L. Zimmerman
author: Bijan Y. Shahir
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A full discussion of the geodesic equations for the NUT metric leads to the interpretation of the metric as representing the field round a gravitating mass which has in addition a gravitational field of ``magnetic monopole'' type; that is, a field which in the Newtonian approximation acts by way of vector product with the velocity. The authors note that this elegant result is not perfect, because the time coordinate depends on the direction of the line singularity.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C15
zbMATH DE Number: 4096334
zbMATH Keywords: gravitational monopole
zbMATH Keywords: geodesic equations
zbMATH Keywords: NUT metric
reviewed by: C. W. Kilmister
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Empty-Space Generalization of the Schwarzschild Metric
cites work: Global analysis of the Kerr-Taub-NUT metric
cites work: Empty space-times admitting a three parameter group of motions
cites work: Q5722964
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4096334