Field of a charged particle in Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation
Abstract
Field equations in the Brans-Dicke scalar-tensor theory of gravitation are obtained for a static charged point mass with the aid of a spherically symmetric, conformally flat metric. A closed-form exact solution of the field equations is presented, and may be considered as describing the field due to a charged mass point at the origin surrounded by a scalar-tensor field in a conformally flat space.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- August 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0305-4470/14/8/021
- Bibcode:
- 1981JPhA...14.1973R
- Keywords:
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- Charged Particles;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Gravitation Theory;
- Scalars;
- Tensor Analysis;
- Field Theory (Physics);
- Maxwell Equation;
- Particle Mass;
- Particle Theory;
- Relativity;
- Space-Time Functions;
- Astrophysics