A spacetime characterization of the Kerr metric
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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/7/323zbMATH Open0939.83013arXivgr-qc/9904070OpenAlexW3102945335MaRDI QIDQ4699990FDOQ4699990
Authors: Marc Mars 
Publication date: 18 November 1999
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9904070
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