FIZIKA B 14 (2005)  3, 303 - 310

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A STUDY OF GLOBAL STRING IN LYRA GEOMETRY

F. RAHAMAN*, Sk. M. HOSSAIN, S. MAL, P. GHOSH and R. MUKHERJI

Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India
*Email-address: farook_rahaman@yahoo.com

Received 30 January 2003;  revised manuscript received 5 May 2005
Accepted 6 June 2005        Online 6 February 2005

An exact solution for the space-time outside the core of a U(1) static global string in Lyra geometry is presented. Our global string is nonsingular at a finite distance from the string core. The gravitational field of the global string is shown to be attractive in nature.

PACS numbers: 98.80cq, 04.20 jb, 04.50
UDC 52.423

Keywords: Global string, Lyra geometry, gravitational field

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