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Compatibility complex for black hole spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-05-11 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

The set of local gauge invariant quantities for linearized gravity on the Kerr spacetime presented by two of the authors (S.A, T.B.) in (arXiv:1803.05341) is shown to be complete. In particular, any gauge invariant quantity for linearized gravity on Kerr that is local and of finite order in derivatives can be expressed in terms of these gauge invariants and derivatives thereof. The proof is carried out by constructing a complete compatibility complex for the Killing operator, and demonstrating the equivalence of the gauge invariants from (arXiv:1803.05341) with the first compatibility operator from that complex.

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@article{arxiv.1910.08756,
  title  = {Compatibility complex for black hole spacetimes},
  author = {Steffen Aksteiner and Lars Andersson and Thomas Bäckdahl and Igor Khavkine and Bernard Whiting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.08756},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

23 pages. Some remarks added

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