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Null hypersurfaces in Kerr-(A)dS spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

For many purposes, a three-dimensional foliation of spacetime is more advantageous to understanding its light cone structure. We derive the equations describing such foliations for the Kerr geometry with non-zero cosmological constant, and show that they reduce to null hypersurfaces in vacuum (anti-)de Sitter spacetime in the limit of zero mass. Furthermore, we find that these null hypersurfaces are free of caustics everywhere for r>0r>0. Our construction has applications in numerical studies of rotating black holes, and in defining Kruskal coordinates for rotating black holes with non-zero cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.1909.06419,
  title  = {Null hypersurfaces in Kerr-(A)dS spacetimes},
  author = {Abdulrahim Al Balushi and Robert B. Mann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06419},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures

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