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Energy and angular momentum of charged rotating black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-03-03 v3

Abstract

We show that the pseudotensors of Einstein, Tolman, Landau and Lifshitz, Papapetrou, and Weinberg (ETLLPW) give the same distributions of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum, for any Kerr-Schild metric. This result generalizes a previous work by G\"urses and G\"ursey that dealt only with the pseudotensors of Einstein and Landau and Lifshitz. We compute these distributions for the Kerr-Newman and Bonnor-Vaidya metrics and find reasonable results. All calculations are performed without any approximation in Kerr-Schild Cartesian coordinates. For the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m metric these definitions give the same result as the Penrose quasi-local mass. For the Kerr black hole the entire energy is confined to its interior whereas for the Kerr-Newman black hole, as expected, the energy is shared by its interior as well as exterior. The total energy and angular momentum of the Kerr-Newman black hole are MM and Ma M a, respectively (MM is the mass parameter and aa is the rotation parameter). The energy distribution for the Bonnor-Vaidya metric is the same as the Penrose quasi-local mass obtained by Tod.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9501002,
  title  = {Energy and angular momentum of charged rotating black holes},
  author = {J M Aguirregabiria and A Chamorro and K S Virbhadra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9501002},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

18 pages, no figures, REVTeX. This is a revised version with the same results, but we now use a previous work by G\"urses and G\"ursey to put our results in perspective