Van Stockum Dust Definition

noun

In general relativity , an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry .

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Origin of Van Stockum Dust

  • Named for Willem Jacob van Stockum, who rediscovered it in 1937, independently of an earlier discovery by Cornelius Lanczos in 1924.

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