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Martin Breithaupt

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Gyromagnetic factor of rotating disks of electrically charged dust in general relativity

We calculated the dimensionless gyromagnetic ratio ("$g$-factor") of self-gravitating, uniformly rotating disks of dust with a constant specific charge $ε$. These disk solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations depend on $ε$ and a "relativity parameter" $γ$ ($0<γ\le 1$) up to a scaling parameter. Accordingly, the $g$-factor is a function $g=g(γ,ε)$. The Newtonian limit is characterized by $γ\ll 1$, whereas $γ\to 1$ leads to a black-hole limit. The $g$-factor, for all $ε$, approaches the values $g=1$ as $γ\to 0$ and $g=2$ as $γ\to 1$.

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On the black hole limit of rotating discs of charged dust

Investigating the rigidly rotating disc of dust with constant specific charge, we find that it leads to an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole in the ultra-relativistic limit. A necessary and sufficient condition for a black hole limit is, that the electric potential in the co-rotating frame is constant on the disc. In that case certain other relations follow. These relations are reviewed with a highly accurate post-Newtonian expansion. Remarkably it is possible to survey the leading order behaviour close to the black hole limit with the post-Newtonian expansion. We find that the disc solution close to that limit can be approximated very well by a "hyper\-extreme" Kerr-Newman solution with the same gravitational mass, angular momentum and charge.

gr-qc

Black holes and quasiblack holes in Einstein-Maxwell theory

Continuous sequences of asymptotically flat solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations describing regular equilibrium configurations of ordinary matter can reach a black hole limit. For a distant observer, the spacetime becomes more and more indistinguishable from the metric of an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole outside the horizon when approaching the limit. From an internal perspective, a still regular but non-asymptotically flat spacetime with the extreme Kerr-Newman near-horizon geometry at spatial infinity forms at the limit. Interesting special cases are sequences of Papapetrou-Majumdar distributions of electrically counterpoised dust leading to extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black holes and sequences of rotating uncharged fluid bodies leading to extreme Kerr black holes.

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