An intrinsic characterization of the Kerr metric
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-03-24 v2
Abstract
We give the necessary and sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be the Kerr solution. These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann tensor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.3310,
title = {An intrinsic characterization of the Kerr metric},
author = {Joan Josep Ferrando and Juan Antonio Sáez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3310},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages; v2: necessary conditions added to theorems 1 and 2, other minor changes