Photon boomerang in a nearly extreme Kerr metric

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ac36e5zbMath1498.83032arXiv2106.13262OpenAlexW3214674074MaRDI QIDQ5090230

Don N. Page

Publication date: 18 July 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13262

zbMATH Keywords

rotationblack holeKerr metricnull geodesicdragging of inertial framesphoton orbit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Black holes (83C57) Quantum optics (81V80) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45)

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