Abstract :
The problem of describing isolated rotating bodies in equilibrium in general relativity has so far been treated under the assumption of the circularity condition in the interior of the body. For a fluid without energy flux, this condition implies that the fluid flow moves only along the angular direction, i.e., there is no convection. Using this simplification, some recent studies have provided us with uniqueness and existence results for asymptotically flat vacuum exterior fields given the interior sources. Here, the generalization of the problem to include general sources is studied. It is proved that the convective motions have no direct influence on the exterior field and hence the aforementioned results on the uniqueness and existence of fields apply equally in the general case.
