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On the Ernst electro-vacuum equations and ergosurfaces

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The question of smoothness at the ergosurface of the space-time metric constructed out of solutions (E,phi) of the Ernst electro-vacuum equations is considered. We prove smoothness of those ergosurfaces at which Re(E) provides the dominant contribution to f=-(Re(E)+|phi|^2) at the zero-level-set of f. Some partial results are obtained in the remaining cases: in particular we give examples of leading-order solutions with singular isolated "ergocircles".

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@article{arxiv.0708.1169,
  title  = {On the Ernst electro-vacuum equations and ergosurfaces},
  author = {Piotr T. Chruściel and Sebastian J. Szybka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1169},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

15 pages, no figures, minor changes

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