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TRAPPING PHOTONS BY A LINE SINGULARITY

METIN ARIK

Bogazici University, Department of Physics, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

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OZGUR DELICE

Bogazici University, Department of Physics, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271803003475Cited by:6 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We present cylindrically symmetric, static solutions of the Einstein field equations around a line singularity such that the energy momentum tensor corresponds to infinitely thin photonic shells. Positivity of the energy density of the thin shell and the line singularity is discussed. It is also shown that thick shells containing mostly radiation are possible in a numerical solution.

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Einstein's equations

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