English Explanatory Dictionary

van Stockum dust

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In general relativity, an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry.

Word forms

van Stockum dust

Etymology

Named for Willem Jacob van Stockum, who rediscovered it in 1937, independently of an earlier discovery by Cornelius Lanczos in 1924.

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