What are extremal Kerr Killing vectors up to?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/21/215017zbMATH Open1266.83095OpenAlexW2037245405WikidataQ62561511 ScholiaQ62561511MaRDI QIDQ4920170FDOQ4920170

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)

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.

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

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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)

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• Velocity-of-light surfaces in Kerr and extreme Kerr
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• Timelike Killing vectors and ergo surfaces in non-asymptotically flat spacetimes

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