Invariants of the Kerr vacuum

DOI10.1023/A:1027362009420MaRDI QIDQ1420845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kayll Lake

Publication date 23 January 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0302087

zbMATH Keywords

black holeChern-Pontryagin invariantcomplex Weyl scalarcurvature invariantsKerr vacuumring singularityWeil tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The Kerr vacuum has two independent invariants derivable from the Riemann tensor without differentiation. Both of these invariants must be examined in order to avoid an erroneous conclusion that the ring singularity of this spacetime is "directional".

Review text

The Kerr vacuum has two independent invariants \(\mathcal W={Wa^6}/{48m^2}\) and \(^\ast\mathcal W={^\ast Wa^6}/{96m^2}\), where \(W\) and \(^\ast W\) are equivalent to the real and imaginary parts of the complex Weyl scalar in spinor notation. The author examines each in detail in order to avoid an erroneous conclusion that the ring singularity is in any sense `directional'. Whereas there exist trajectories (albeit non-geodesic) along which \(\mathcal W\) or \(^\ast\mathcal W\) do not diverge in the limit \(x\to0\), \(\theta\to\pi/2\) (in terms of the familiar Boyer-Lindquist coordinates), there exists no trajectory along which both \(\mathcal W\) and \(^\ast\mathcal W\) remain finite in this limit. In this sense the singularity of the Kerr vacuum is not directional.

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