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A covariant algorithm for deriving the conserved quantities for natural Hamiltonian systems is combined with the non-relativistic framework of Eisenhart, and of Duval, in which the classical trajectories arise as geodesics in a higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Cariglia , G. W. Gibbons , J. -W. van Holten , P. A. Horvathy , P. -M. Zhang

Drake and Szekeres have extended the Newman-Janis algorithm to produce stationary axisymmetric spacetimes from general static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations. The algorithm mathematically generates an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Philip Beltracchi , Paolo Gondolo

We construct analytic extensions across the Killing horizons of non-extremal and extremal dipole black rings in Einstein-Maxwell's theory using different methods. We show that these extensions are non-globally hyperbolic, have multiple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Jay Armas

A characterization of the Kerr-NUT-(A)de Sitter metric among four dimensional \Lambda-vacuum spacetimes admitting a Killing vector is obtained in terms of the proportionality of the self-dual Weyl tensor and a natural self-dual double…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-20 Marc Mars , José M. M. Senovilla

We present a family of new rotating black hole solutions to Einstein's equations that generalizes the Kerr-Newman spacetime to include an anisotropic matter. The geometry is obtained by employing the Newman-Janis algorithm. In addition to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Youngone Lee

We address a specific issue of the Newman-Janis algorithm: How to determine the general form of the complex transformation for the Schwarzschild metric and ensure that the resulting axisymmetric metric satisfies the zero-scalar-curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Chen Lan , Zi-Xiao Liu , Yan-Gang Miao

Vector-tensor theories beyond General Relativity have widely been studied in the context of ultraviolet completion of gravity, endowing a mass to the graviton and explaining dark energy phenomena. We here construct rotating black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Siddarth Ajith , Alexander Saffer , Kent Yagi

We investigate the implications of the existence of Killing spinors in a spacetime. In particular, we show that in vacuum and electrovacuum a Killing spinor, along with some assumptions on the associated Killing vector in an asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Michael J. Cole , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

A new method is presented for finding Killing tensors in spacetimes with symmetries. The method is used to find all the Killing tensors of Melvin's magnetic universe and the Schwarzschild vacuum. We show that they are all trivial. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 David Garfinkle , E. N. Glass

In this review we present the most general form of the Janis--Newman algorithm. This extension allows to generate configurations which contain all bosonic fields with spin less than or equal to two (real and complex scalar fields, gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Harold Erbin

The strong gravitational field near massive blackhole is an interesting regime to test General Relativity(GR) and modified gravity theories. The knowledge of spacetime metric around a blackhole is a primary step for such tests. Solving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda , Avani Patel

The Newman-Penrose equations for spacetimes having one spacelike Killing vector are reduced -- in a geometrically defined "canonical frame'' -- to a minimal set, and its differential structure is studied. Expressions for the frame vectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bonanos

The Newman-Janis trick is a procedure, (not even really an ansatz), for obtaining the Kerr spacetime from the Schwarzschild spacetime. This 50 year old trick continues to generate heated discussion and debate even to this day. Most of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Del Rajan , Matt Visser

We present a simple approach for obtaining Kerr interior solutions with the help of the Newman-Janis algorithm (NJA) starting with static space-times describing physically sensible interior Schwarzschild solutions. In this context, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Stefano Viaggiu

The Simon tensor gives rise to a local characterization of the Kerr-NUT family in the stationary class of vacuum spacetimes. We find that a symmetric and traceless tensor in the quotient space of the stationary Killing trajectory offers a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-06 Masato Nozawa

We formulate several criteria under which the symmetries associated with the Killing and Killing-Yano tensors on the base space can be lifted to the symmetries of the full warped geometry. The procedure is explicitly illustrated on several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Pavel Krtous , David Kubiznak , Ivan Kolar

The Newman-Janis algorithm has been widely used to construct rotating black hole solutions from non-rotating counterparts. While this algorithm was developed within General Relativity, it has more recently been applied to non-rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-21 Devin Hansen , Nicolas Yunes

In this paper, we find Kerr solution accompanied with a nontrivial vector field as a solution to one of the simplest vector-tensor theories of gravity, namely the bumblebee model with an intriguing coupling constant between the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Rui Xu , Zhan-Feng Mai , Dicong Liang

In this paper, we study the recently discovered family of higher dimensional Kerr-AdS black holes with an extra NUT-like parameter. We show that the inverse metric is additively separable after multiplication by a simple function. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Davis

Motivated by quantum-gravity scenarios that replace the classical black hole singularity with a regular core, and by the possibility that the dark-energy sector may be scale dependent, we construct a broad class of nonsingular rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Ramon Torres