The Kerr spacetime: A brief introduction

By Matt Visser. 2007

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This chapter provides a brief introduction to the Kerr spacetime and rotating black holes, touching on the most common coordinate representations of the spacetime metric and the key features of the geometry -- the presence of horizons and ergospheres. The coverage is by no means complete, and serves chiefly to orient oneself when reading subsequent chapters.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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4. Monica Guica
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Citations in the corpus

• Black hole superradiance from Kerr/CFT (2009, unknown): “The metric of the Kerr black hole is [22, 23] ds(2) = − ρ̂2 (”
• Kerr/CFT Correspondence (2008, methodology): “The Kerr metric [22, 23] is the general rotating black hole solution of the four-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations.”
• Type D spacetimes and the Weyl double copy (2018, unknown): “[90].”