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Making use of twistor structures and the Kerr theorem for shear-free null geodesic congruences, an infinite family of electromagnetic fields satisfying the homogeneous Maxwell equations in flat Minkowski and the associated curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 Vladimir V. Kassandrov

We show that, within a broad stationary-axisymmetric class, Kerr-type separability and hidden symmetry arise as a local consequence of the Einstein equations. Without assuming separability, algebraic speciality, Killing--Yano symmetry, or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Hyeong-Chan Kim

Kerr-Schild (KS) geometry of the rotating black-holes and spinning particles is based on the associated with Kerr theorem twistor structure which is defined by an analytic curve $F(Z)=0$ in the projective twistor space $Z \in CP^3 .$ On the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-04 Alexander Burinskii

The original Kerr theorem provides the foundation for Kerr-Schild transformations by classifying all shear-free and geodesic null congruences in flat spacetime; the key ingredient of the Kerr-Schild ansatz. However, due to the high level of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Eloy Ayón-Beato , Daniel Flores-Alfonso , Mokhtar Hassaine

We use the classical double copy to identify a necessary condition for Maxwell theory sources to constitute single copies of Kerr-Schild solutions to Einstein's equations. In the case of four-dimensional Kerr-Schild spacetimes on Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-10 Ibrahima Bah , Ross Dempsey , Peter Weck

The classical double copy relating exact solutions of biadjoint scalar, gauge and gravity theories continues to receive widespread attention. Recently, a derivation of the exact classical double copy was presented, using ideas from twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Erick Chacón , Silvia Nagy , Chris D. White

We show that scattering amplitudes on any gauge theory background admitting a coherent state description double copy to amplitudes in a curved spacetime. The metric of the spacetime is built from the gauge background using a notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Anton Ilderton , William Lindved

General properties of Kerr-Schild spacetimes with (A)dS background in arbitrary dimension are studied. It is shown that the geodetic Kerr-Schild vector k is a multiple WAND of the spacetime. Einstein Kerr-Schild spacetimes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-13 Tomáš Málek , Vojtěch Pravda

We construct the classical double copy formalism for M-theory. This extends the current state of the art by including the three form potential of eleven dimensional supergravity along with the metric. The key for this extension is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-17 David S. Berman , Kwangeon Kim , Kanghoon Lee

In the frame of the Kerr-Schild approach, we consider the complex structure of Kerr geometry which is determined by a complex world line of a complex source. The real Kerr geometry is represented as a real slice of this complex structure.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Burinskii

The double copy is a remarkable relationship between gauge theory and gravity that has been explored in a number of contexts, most notably scattering amplitudes and classical solutions. The convolutional double copy provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Qiuyue Liang , Silvia Nagy

Kerr-Schild (KS) geometry is based on a congruence of twistor null lines which forms a holographic space-time determined by the Kerr theorem. We describe in details integration of the non-stationary Debney-Kerr-Schild equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexander Burinskii

The Kerr-Schild double copy is a map between exact solutions of general relativity and Maxwell's theory, where the nonlinear nature of general relativity is circumvented by considering solutions in the Kerr-Schild form. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Gokhan Alkac , Mehmet Kemal Gumus , Mustafa Tek

The double copy relates momentum-space scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories. It has also been extended to classical solutions, where in some cases an exact double copy can be formulated directly in terms of products of fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Andres Luna , Nathan Moynihan , Chris D. White

Ingoing and outgoing principal null geodesics in Kerr spacetimes are characterized as part of parametrized families of strings in complex Kerr geometry and are associated with holomorphic curves in twistor space with help of the Kerr…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-09 Christian Kunz

Superradiant scattering of linear spin $s=0,\pm 1,\pm 2$ fields on Kerr black hole background is investigated in the time domain by integrating numerically the homogeneous Teukolsky master equation. The applied numerical setup has already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-26 Károly Zoltán Csukás , István Rácz

We show that (specifically scaled) equations of shear-free null geodesic congruences on the Minkowski space-time possess intrinsic self-dual, restricted gauge and algebraic structures. The complex eikonal, Weyl 2-spinor, $SL(2,\mathbb C)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-01 Vladimir V. Kassandrov , Joseph A. Rizcallah

The Newman-Penrose map, which is closely related to the classical double copy, associates certain exact solutions of Einstein's equations with self-dual solutions of the vacuum Maxwell equations. Here we initiate an extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Kara Farnsworth , Michael Graesser , Gabriel Herczeg

We characterise, in the setting of the Kodaira-Spencer deformation theory, the twistor spaces of (co-)CR quaternionic manifolds. As an application, we prove that, locally, the leaf space of any nowhere zero quaternionic vector field on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Radu Pantilie

We extend the Kerr-Schild double copy to the case of a probe particle moving in the Kerr-Schild background. In particular, we solve Wong's equations for a test color charge in a Coulomb non-Abelian potential ($\sqrt{\text{Schw}}$) and on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-16 Riccardo Gonzo , Canxin Shi