A spacetime characterization of the Kerr metric

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/7/323MaRDI QIDQ4699990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Mars

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9904070

zbMATH Keywords

Kerr metricSimon tensorrotating model in relativitystationary, asymptotically flat vacuum spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: We obtain a characterization of the Kerr metric among stationary, asymptotically flat, vacuum spacetimes, which extends the characterization in terms of the Simon tensor (defined only in the manifold of trajectories) to the whole spacetime. More precisely, we define a three index tensor on any spacetime with a Killing field, which vanishes identically for Kerr and which coincides in the strictly stationary region with the Simon tensor when projected down into the manifold of trajectories. We prove that a stationary asymptotically flat vacuum spacetime with vanishing spacetime Simon tensor is locally isometric to Kerr. A geometrical interpretation of this characterization in terms of the Weyl tensor is also given. Namely, a stationary, asymptotically flat vacuum spacetime such that each principal null direction of the Killing form is a repeated principal null direction of the Weyl tensor is locally isometric to Kerr.

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