Geometry and topology of the Kerr photon region in the phase space

DOI10.1007/S10714-019-2561-YMaRDI QIDQ2003376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Carla Cederbaum, Sophia Jahns

Publication date 8 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00916

zbMATH Keywords

Seifert fibered spacesphase spaceKerr spacetimeclassification of 3-manifoldsphoton regions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We study the set of trapped photons of a subcritical (a<M) Kerr spacetime as a subset of the phase space. First, we present an explicit proof that the photons of constant Boyer--Lindquist coordinate radius are the only photons in the Kerr exterior region that are trapped in the sense that they stay away both from the horizon and from spacelike infinity. We then proceed to identify the set of trapped photons as a subset of the (co-)tangent bundle of the subcritical Kerr spacetime. We give a new proof showing that this set is a smooth 5-dimensional submanifold of the (co-)tangent bundle with topology $SO(3)imesmathbb{R}^2$ using results about the classification of 3-manifolds and of Seifert fiber spaces. Both results are covered by the rigorous analysis of Dyatlov [5]; however, the methods we use are very different and shed new light on the results and possible applications.

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