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Complex structure of Kerr-Schild geometry: Calabi-Yau twofold from the Kerr theorem

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-03-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider Newman's representation of the Kerr geometry as a complex retarded-time construction generated by a source propagating along a complex world-line. We notice that the complex world-line forms really an open complex string, endpoints of which should have independent dynamics by the string excitations. The adjoined to complex Kerr string twistorial structure is determined by the Kerr theorem, and we obtain that the resulting Kerr's equation describes a quartic in projective twistor CP3,CP^3 , which is known as Calabi-Yau twofold of superstring theory. Along with other remarkable similarities with superstring theory, the Kerr geometry has principal distinctions being the four-dimensional theory consistent with gravity at the Compton scale, contrary to the Planck scale of the superstring theory.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4210,
  title  = {Complex structure of Kerr-Schild geometry: Calabi-Yau twofold from the Kerr theorem},
  author = {Alexander Burinskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4210},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures. Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2012 Awards for Essays on Gravitation