English

Non-conservation of Carter in black hole spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-08-06 v2

Abstract

Freely falling point particles in the vicinity of Kerr black holes are subject to a conservation law, that of their Carter constant. We consider the conjecture that this conservation law is a special case of a more general conservation law, valid for arbitrary processes obeying local energy momentum conservation. Under some fairly general assumptions we prove that the conjecture is false: there is no conservation law for conserved stress-energy tensors on the Kerr background that reduces to conservation of Carter for a single point particle.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05164,
  title  = {Non-conservation of Carter in black hole spacetimes},
  author = {Alexander Grant and Eanna E. Flanagan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05164},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure, (v2) typos corrected, some clarifications and appendix B added