Levi-Civita cylinders with fractional angular deficit
arXiv:1105.2346 · doi:10.1063/1.3579130
Abstract
The angular deficit factor in the Levi-Civita vacuum metric has been parametrized using a Riemann-Liouville fractional integral. This introduces a new parameter into the general relativistic cylinder description, the fractional index α. When the fractional index is continued into the negative α region, new behavior is found in the Gott-Hiscock cylinder and in an Israel shell.
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