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On the rotating Letelier spacetime

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We construct the solution corresponding to a rotating black hole surrounded by a cloud of strings (Rotating Letelier spacetime) from its nonrotating counterpart (Letelier spacetime) by applying a method of coordinate complexification developed by Newman and Janis.

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D.B. was supported by CAPES Fellowship. V.B.B. thanks Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for partial financial support.

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  1. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba – IFPB, Sousa, PB, Brazil

    D. Barbosa

  2. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, João Pessoa, PB, CEP 58051-970, Brazil

    V. B. Bezerra

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Barbosa, D., Bezerra, V.B. On the rotating Letelier spacetime. Gen Relativ Gravit 48, 149 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-016-2143-1

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