Multipole moments of a charged rotating disc of dust in general relativity

Abstract: The gravitational and electromagnetic multipole moments of the charged rotating disc of dust, which is an axisymmetric, stationary solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations in terms of a post-Newtonian expansion, are calculated and discussed. It turns out that the individual mass, angular momentum, electric and magnetic moments are ordered in the sense that higher moments have a lower absolute value. There is an interesting conjecture stating that the absolute values of all higher multipole moments of a uniformly rotating perfect fluid body are always greater than those of the corresponding Kerr spacetime, which we generalize to include charged bodies. We find that for the charged rotating disc of dust the conjecture holds (within the limits of accuracy of the post-Newtonian expansion).