The Kerr-Schild ansatz revised

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Abstract: Kerr-Schild metrics have been introduced as a linear superposition of the flat spacetime metric and a squared null vector field, say , multiplied by some scalar function, say H. The basic assumption which led to Kerr solution was that be both geodesic and shearfree. This condition is relaxed here and Kerr-Schild ansatz is revised by treating Kerr-Schild metrics as {it exact linear perturbations} of Minkowski spacetime. The scalar function H is taken as the perturbing function, so that Einstein's field equations are solved order by order in powers of H. It turns out that the congruence must be geodesic and shearfree as a consequence of third and second order equations, leading to an alternative derivation of Kerr solution.












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