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Letter: Frame Dragging Anomalies for Rotating Bodies

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Examples of axially symmetric solutions to Einstein's field equations are given that exhibit anomalous “negative frame dragging” in the sense that zero angular momentum test particles acquire angular velocities in the opposite direction of rotation from the source of the metric.

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Collas, P., Klein, D. Letter: Frame Dragging Anomalies for Rotating Bodies. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 1197–1206 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000018286.98387.64

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