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Kaehler geometry of black holes and gravitational instantons

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-05-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We obtain a closed formula for the Kaehler potential of a broad class of four-dimensional Lorentzian or Euclidean conformal "Kaehler" geometries, including the Plebanski-Demianski class and various gravitational instantons such as Fubini-Study and Chen-Teo. We show that the Kaehler potentials of Schwarzschild and Kerr are related by a Newman-Janis shift. Our method also shows that a class of supergravity black holes, including the Kerr-Sen spacetime, is Hermitian (but not conformal Kaehler). We finally show that the integrability conditions of complex structures lead naturally to the (non-linear) Weyl double copy, and we give new vacuum and non-vacuum examples of this relation.

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@article{arxiv.2207.10039,
  title  = {Kaehler geometry of black holes and gravitational instantons},
  author = {Steffen Aksteiner and Bernardo Araneda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10039},
  year   = {2023}
}

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