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SELF–GRAVITATING STATIONARY AXI-<br />

SYMMETRIC PERFECT FLUIDS:<br />

DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION AND SOME<br />

GEOMETRIC FEATURES<br />

F.J. Ch<strong>in</strong>ea*<br />

Dept. <strong>de</strong> Física Teórica II, Ciencias Físicas,<br />

Universidad Complutense <strong>de</strong> Madrid<br />

E-28040 Madrid, Spa<strong>in</strong><br />

Keywords: Perfect fluids, differential rotations, Newtonian configurations.<br />

1. NEWTONIAN CONFIGURATIONS<br />

The equations for the <strong>in</strong>terior of a self-gravitat<strong>in</strong>g barotropic perfect<br />

fluid <strong>in</strong> the classical (Newtonian) theory <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>ertial frame are the<br />

follow<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

where is the mass <strong>de</strong>nsity, the pressure, the velocity field<br />

of the fluid, <strong>and</strong> U the gravitational potential; all these functions may<br />

<strong>de</strong>pend <strong>in</strong> pr<strong>in</strong>ciple on the space coord<strong>in</strong>ates, <strong>and</strong> on time<br />

G is the gravitational constant (<strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g, G = 1). Equation (1)<br />

is the cont<strong>in</strong>uity equation, (2) is the Euler equation for the fluid, (3) the<br />

Poisson equation for the gravitational potential U, <strong>and</strong> (4) the barotropic<br />

equation of state. Some closed-form solutions of fluid configurations<br />

* E–mail: ch<strong>in</strong>ea@eucmos.sim.ucm.es<br />

<strong>Exact</strong> <strong>Solutions</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Scalar</strong> <strong>Fields</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Gravity</strong>: Recent Developments<br />

Edited by Macias et al., Kluwer Aca<strong>de</strong>mic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2001<br />

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