What are extremal Kerr Killing vectors up to?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/21/215017MaRDI QIDQ4920170zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan E. Åman, Ingemar Bengtsson, Helgi F. Rúnarsson

Publication date 16 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6306

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vector fieldextremal Kerr spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In the extremal Kerr spacetime the horizon Killing vector field is null on a timelike hypersurface crossing the horizon at a fixed latitude, and spacelike on both sides of the horizon in the equatorial plane. We explain in some detail how this behaviour is consistent with the existence of timelike Killing vectors everywhere off the horizon, and how it arises in a limit from the Kerr spacetime where there is a similar hypersurface strictly outside the horizon.

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