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Massless field perturbations of the spinning C metric

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

A single master equation is given describing spin s2s\le2 test fields that are gauge- and tetrad-invariant perturbations of the {\it spinning C metric} spacetime representing a source with mass MM, uniformly rotating with angular momentum per unit mass aa and uniformly accelerated with acceleration AA. This equation can be separated into its radial and angular parts. The behavior of the radial functions near the horizons is studied and used to examine the influence of AA on the phenomenon of superradiance, while the angular equation leads to modified spin-weighted spheroidal harmonic solutions generalizing those of the Kerr spacetime. Finally the coupling between the spin of the perturbing field and the acceleration parameter AA is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1408.4593,
  title  = {Massless field perturbations of the spinning C metric},
  author = {Donato Bini and Christian Cherubini and Andrea Geralico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4593},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24 pages, no figures; published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0301080