Global aspects of accelerating and rotating black hole spacetimes

Article

Global aspects of accelerating and rotating black hole spacetimes

Griffiths, J. B.; Podolský, J.

Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 555-568 (2006)

Abstract

The complete family of exact solutions representing accelerating and rotating black holes with possible electromagnetic charges and a NUT parameter is known in terms of a modified Plebanski-Demianski metric. This demonstrates the singularity and horizon structure of the sources but not that the complete space-time describes two causally separated black holes. To demonstrate this property, the metric is first cast in the Weyl-Lewis-Papapetrou form. After extending this up to the acceleration horizon, it is then transformed to the boost-rotation-symmetric form in which the global properties of the solution are manifest. The physical interpretation of these solutions is thus clarified.

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

BibTeX

@article{UTF184,
  author        = {Griffiths, J. B. and Podolský, J.},
  title         = {{Global aspects of accelerating and rotating black hole spacetimes}},
  journal       = {Class. Quantum Grav.},
  volume        = {23},
  pages         = {555-568},
  year          = {2006},
  doi           = {10.1088/0264-9381/23/2/019},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/0511122},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0264-9381/23/2/019/cqg6\_2\_019.pdf},
}