Slowly Rotating Homogeneous Stars and the Heun Equation

dc.creatorPetroff, David
dc.date2007-01-15
dc.date2007-02-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:21:40Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:21:40Z
dc.descriptionThe scheme developed by Hartle for describing slowly rotating bodies in 1967 was applied to the simple model of constant density by Chandrasekhar and Miller in 1974. The pivotal equation one has to solve turns out to be one of Heun's equations. After a brief discussion of this equation and the chances of finding a closed form solution, a quickly converging series solution of it is presented. A comparison with numerical solutions of the full Einstein equations allows one to truncate the series at an order appropriate to the slow rotation approximation. The truncated solution is then used to provide explicit expressions for the metric.
dc.description16 pages, uses document class iopart, v2: minor corrections
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0701081
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0701081
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.24:1055-1068,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/5/003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/194332
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleSlowly Rotating Homogeneous Stars and the Heun Equation
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