Frame dragging inside a slowly rotating spherical shell ($\omega =\frac{4GM}{3R}\Omega$)

For a weakly gravitating thin spherical shell of mass $M$, radius $R$ and uniform angular velocity $\Omega$, its interior linearized gravity metric has constant scalar potentials $A=-GM/R$, $C=GM/R$ and $g_{0i}=\omega (\hat{\mathbf{z}}\times \mathbf{x}{)}_i$. The scalar mass shell is a monopole. Its mass current is a dipole: regular interior and decaying exterior radial solutions are proportional to $r$ and $r^{-2}$, and their derivative jump fixes the factor $4/3$. Local inertial axes co-rotate with the shell at $\omega$ relative to asymptotic nonrotating axes. This is the leading interior Lense-Thirring precession, neglecting quadratic rotation and higher gravitational orders.

At linear order in $ϵ=GM/R$ and the leading rotation term, this coordinate change takes the interior shell metric to Minkowski spacetime. Consequently the retained interior Riemann curvature tensor vanishes although inertial axes rotate relative to distant reference axes. A freely moving particle has $\mathbf{X}={\mathbf{X}}_0+\mathbf{V}T$, while its original coordinates obey $d^2\mathbf{x}/d{t}^2=2\mathbf{\omega }\times d\mathbf{x}/dt$ to first rotation order. Terms of order ${\omega }^2$ would include centrifugal acceleration and are outside this approximation. A gyroscope at rest to the retained order has its parallel-transported spin precessing at $\mathbf{\omega }$ in the original coordinates.