Conserved currents for electromagnetic fields in the Kerr spacetime

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB995AMaRDI QIDQ5161888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander M. Grant, Éanna É. Flanagan

Publication date 1 November 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08645

zbMATH Keywords

Carter constantconserved currentsKerr perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: We construct a variety of conserved currents for test electromagnetic fields on a Kerr background. Our procedure, which involves the symplectic product for electromagnetism and symmetry operators, generates the conserved currents given by Andersson, B"ackdahl, and Blue (2015), as well as a new conserved current. These currents reduce to the sum of (positive powers of) the Carter constants of photons in the geometric optics limit, and generalize the current for scalar fields discovered by Carter (1977) involving the Killing tensor. We furthermore show that the fluxes of our new current through null infinity and the horizon are finite.

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