Measuring multipole moments of Weyl metrics by means of gyroscopes

Abstract

Using the technique of Rindler and Perlick we calculate the total precession per revolution of a gyroscope circumventing the source of Weyl metrics. We establish thereby a link between the multipole moments of the source and an ``observable'' quantity. Special attention deserves the case of the gamma-metric. As an extension of this result we also present the corresponding expressions for some stationary space-times.

18 pages Latex, To appear in J.Math.Phys

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