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Enhanced Ehlers Transformation and the Majumdar-Papapetrou-NUT Spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The transformation which adds (or removes) NUT charge when it is applied to electrovacuum, axisymmetric and stationary space-times is studied. After analysing the Ehlers and the Reina-Treves transformations we propose a new one, more precise in the presence of the Maxwell electromagnetic field. The enhanced Ehlers transformation proposed turns out to act as a gravitomagnetic duality, analogously to the electromagnetic duality, but for gravity: it rotates the mass charge into the gravomagnetic (or NUT) charge. As an example the Kerr-Newman-NUT black hole is obtained with the help of this enhanced transformation. Moreover a new analytical exact solution is built adding the NUT charge to a double charged black hole, at equilibrium. It describes the non-extremal generalisation of the Majumdar-Papapetrou-NUT solution. From the near-horizon analysis, its microscopic entropy, according to the Kerr/CFT correspondence, is found and the second law of black hole thermodynamics is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08228,
  title  = {Enhanced Ehlers Transformation and the Majumdar-Papapetrou-NUT Spacetime},
  author = {Marco Astorino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08228},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v1: 28 pages. v2: 32 pages, typos corrected, references added, extended version, a relation between the gravitomagnetic duality and the enhanced Ehlers transformation is discussed; v3: 34 pages, final version, to appear in JHEP