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We investigate analytically gravitational lensing by charged, stationary, axially symmetric Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole in the weak deflection limit. Approximate solutions to the lightlike equations of motion are present up to and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Through gravitational decoupling using the extended minimal geometric deformation, a new family of static and rotating ``hairy'' black holes is provided. The background of these models is a generic Schwarzschild metric containing as special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-10 Pablo Leon , B. Mishra , Y. Gomez-Leyton , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

We evolve a scalar field in a fixed Kerr-Schild background geometry to test simple $(3+1)$-dimensional algorithms for singularity excision. We compare both centered and upwind schemes for handling the shift (advection) terms, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Yo , T. W. Baumgarte , S. L. Shapiro

We obtain approximate analytic expressions for the critical value of the total angular momentum of a non-relativistic test particle moving in the Kerr geometry, such that it will be captured by the black hole. The expressions apply to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-25 Clifford M. Will

The ultrarelativistic boosting procedure had been applied in the literature to map the metric of Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime into a metric describing de Sitter spacetime plus a shock-wave singularity located on a null hypersurface.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Emmanuele Battista , Giampiero Esposito , Paolo Scudellaro , Francesco Tramontano

We consider gedanken experiments to destroy Kerr black holes by means of absorbing matter with sufficient energy and angular momentum. It is shown that extremal and near-extremal Kerr black holes cannot be destroyed in a process that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Ivan R. Vasquez

We consider an extended version of the Kerr theorem incorporated in the Kerr-Schild formalism. It allows one to construct the series of exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell field equations from a holomorphic generating function $F$ of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Burinskii

We present the ultrarelativistic boost of the general global monopole solution which is parametrized by mass and deficit solid angle. The problem is addressed from two different perspectives. In the first one the primary object for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 O. Svitek , T. Tahamtan

I construct exact solutions for general nonextremal rotating, charged Kaluza-Klein black holes with a cosmological constant and with arbitrary angular momenta in all higher dimensions. I then investigate their thermodynamics and find their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-23 Shuang-Qing Wu

In this work we study in detail new kinds of motions of the metric tensor. The work is divided into two main parts. In the first part we study the general existence of Kerr-Schild motions --a recently introduced metric motion. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Sergi R. Hildebrandt

A spectral singularity is a mathematical notion with an intriguing physical realization in terms of certain zero-width resonances. In optics it manifests as lasing at the threshold gain. We explore the application of their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Ali Mostafazadeh

We study the discrete light cone quantization of Kerr-AdS_{d+3} black holes with a plane wave boundary. The resulting backgrounds are conjectured to be dual of non-relativist conformal quantum mechanical theories in d spatial dimensions at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Martin Schvellinger

The general analysis of the relations between masses and angular momenta in the configurations composed of two balancing extremal Kerr particles is made on the basis of two exact solutions arising as extreme limits of the well-known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 I. Cabrera-Munguia , V. S. Manko , E. Ruiz

The strategy of obtaining the familiar Kerr-Newman solution in general relativity is based on either using the metric ansatz in the Kerr-Schild form, or applying the method of complex coordinate transformation to a non-rotating charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. N. Aliev

For the nonlinear vector curl-curl equation describing a monochromatic light wave in a Kerr medium, an exact reduction is suggested which results in a system of four ordinary differential equations, of the first order each, for functions of…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-09 Victor P. Ruban , Roman V. Ruban

The Kerr-Schild (KS) geometry is linked tightly with the auxiliary \emph{flat} Minkowski background. Nevertheless, it describes many curved space-times and the related physical models, starting from cosmology and black holes to the…

General Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Alexander Burinskii

The Kerr solution in coordinates corotating with the horizon is studied as a testbed for a spacetime with a helical Killing vector in the Ernst picture. The solution is numerically constructed by solving the Ernst equation with a spectral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-08 S. Bai , G. Izquierdo , C. Klein

In this paper, the relation between the modified Lorenz boosts, proposed in the doubly relativity theories and a linear combination of Conformal Group generators in $R^{1,d-1}$ is investigated. The introduction of a new generator is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos Leiva

As an extension of our previous work [1] (arXiv:2409.02308), we study a complete family of type D black holes with Kerr-like rotation, NUT twist, acceleration, electric and magnetic charges, and any value of the cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Hryhorii Ovcharenko , Jiri Podolsky , Marco Astorino

Rapidly rotating black hole solutions in theories beyond general relativity play a key role in experimental gravity, as they allow us to compute observables in extreme spacetimes that deviate from the predictions of general relativity. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 Robert McNees , Leo C. Stein , Nicolás Yunes