English

Kerr Initial data

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Exploiting a 3+1 analysis of the Mars-Simon tensor, conditions on a vacuum initial data set ensuring that its development is isometric to a subset of the Kerr spacetime are found. These conditions are expressed in terms of the vanishing of a positive scalar function defined on the initial data hypersurface. Applications of this result are discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0805.4505,
  title  = {Kerr Initial data},
  author = {Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo and Juan A. Valiente Kroon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4505},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, 1 figure. Minor typos corrected and remark 2 added. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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