Exterior and interior metrics with quadrupole moment

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1141-1152

  Quevedo, Hernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b ICRANET   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exterior solutions; Interior solutions; Quadrupole

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953062366     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-010-0940-5     Document Type: Article

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