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A class of axially-symmetric electromagnetic mass models

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This paper presents a set of solutions of coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with matter for the Levi-Civita's metric which can be interpreted as electromagnetic mass models which are extensions of the electromagnetic mass models obtained previously. It may be pointed out that electromagnetic mass models are solutions of coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with matter where all the characteristics of matter vanish when the charge vanishes. Existence of such solution tends to confirm Lorentz's conjecture that the mass of an electron may be of purely electromagnetic origin.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India

    Saibal Ray & Dipankar Ray

  2. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

    R. N. Tiwari

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Ray, S., Ray, D. & Tiwari, R.N. A class of axially-symmetric electromagnetic mass models. Astrophys Space Sci 199, 333–337 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00613207

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