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Phys. Rev. D 64, 084009 (2001) [4 pages]

Gravitational field of a rotating global monopole

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R. M. Teixeira Filho*
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58059-970 João Pessoa, Pb, Brazil
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus de Ondina, 40210-340 Salvador, Ba, Brazil

V. B. Bezerra
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58059-970 João Pessoa, Pb, Brazil

Received 27 April 2001; published 18 September 2001

By applying the method of complex coordinate transformation, the rotating global monopole solution is obtained from the nonrotating counterpart solution that corresponds to the global monopole of Barriola and Vilenkin.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.084009
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.084009
PACS:
04.20.Cv, 04.20.Jb

*Electronic address: rmuniz@fisica.ufpb.br

Electronic address: valdir@fisica.ufpb.br