Frame dragging inside a slowly rotating spherical shell
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For a weakly gravitating thin spherical shell of mass , radius and uniform angular velocity , its interior linearized gravity metric has constant scalar potentials , and . The scalar mass shell is a monopole. Its mass current is a dipole: regular interior and decaying exterior radial solutions are proportional to and , and their derivative jump fixes the factor . Local inertial axes co-rotate with the shell at relative to asymptotic nonrotating axes. This is the leading interior Lense-Thirring precession, neglecting quadratic rotation and higher gravitational orders.
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