General Relativistic Rossby-Haurwitz waves of a slowly and differentially rotating fluid shell
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We show that, at first order in the angular velocity, the general relativistic description of Rossby-Haurwitz waves (the analogues of r waves on a thin shell) can be obtained from the corresponding Newtonian one after a coordinate transformation. As an application, we show that the results recently obtained by Rezzolla and Yoshida (2001) in the analysis of Newtonian Rossby-Haurwitz waves of a slowly and differentially rotating, fluid shell apply also in General Relativity, at first order in the angular velocity. PACS numbers: 97.10.Kc, 97.10.Sj, 97.60.Jd, 04.40.Dg
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