A simple proof of the perturbative uniqueness of the Kerr solution

DOI10.1007/BF00763460MaRDI QIDQ1123434zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Göran Bergqvist, Malcolm Ludvigsen

Publication date 1989

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00763460

zbMATH Keywords

black holeGeroch-Held-Penrose spin coefficient formalismKerr solutionperturbative uniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Review text

Using the Geroch-Held-Penrose spin coefficient formalism, the authors show that any small stationary perturbation of a Kerr solution is a new Kerr solution. This also implies that any stationary black hole space- time which can be obtained by a continuous stationary perturbation of Schwarzschild solution must be a Kerr solution. The proof is simple and coordinate free but it draws heavily from the mathematical equations of the GHP formalism; as such the authors should have been well advised to include the essentials of GHP formalism in an appendix to this paper.

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