Curvature Invariants for Rotating and Charged Black Holes (original) (raw)

SECOND ORDER SCALAR INVARIANTS OF THE RIEMANN TENSOR: APPLICATIONS TO BLACK HOLE SPACETIMES

International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2002

Keywords: Riemann invariants, black holes. We discuss the Kretschmann, Chern-Pontryagin and Euler invariants among the second order scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor in any spacetime in the Newman-Penrose formalism and in the framework of gravitoelectromagnetism, using the Kerr-Newman geometry as an example. An analogy with electromagnetic invariants leads to the definition of regions of gravitoelectric or gravitomagnetic dominance. * cherubini@icra.itbinid@icra.itcapozziello@sa.infn.it § ruffini@icra.it

Curvature Invariants for accelerating Kerr-Newman black holes in (anti-)de Sitter spacetime

Classical and Quantum Gravity

The curvature scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor are important in General Relativity because they allow a manifestly coordinate invariant characterisation of certain geometrical properties of spacetimes such as, among others, curvature singularities, gravitomagnetism. We calculate explicit analytic expressions for the set of Zakhary-McIntosh curvature invariants for accelerating Kerr-Newman black holes in (anti-)de Sitter spacetime as well as for the Kerr-Newman-(anti-)de Sitter black hole. These black hole metrics belong to the most general type D solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a cosmological constant. Explicit analytic expressions for the Euler-Poincare density invariant, which is relevant for the computation of the Euler-Poincare characteristic χ(M), and the Kretschmann scalar are also provided for both cases. We perform a detailed plotting of the curvature invariants that reveal a rich structure of the spacetime geometry surrounding the singularity of a rot...

Geometry of charged rotating black hole

Some geometrical aspects of the Kerr-Newman black hole and its special cases have been studied. It is seen that the Gaussian curvature of the two or three dimensional induced metrics on some hypersurfaces outside of these black holes can be expressed in terms of the eigen values of the characteristic equation and depend upon the physical parameters which describe these black holes.

Energy and angular momentum in D-dimensional Kerr-Ads black holes — New formulation

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

Recently, it was shown that the conserved charges of asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes can be written in an explicitly gauge-invariant way in terms of the linearized Riemann tensor and the Killing vectors. Here, we employ this construction to compute the mass and angular momenta of the [Formula: see text]-dimensional Kerr-AdS black holes, which is one of the most remarkable Einstein metrics generalizing the four-dimensional rotating black hole.

Novel way to the metric of higher dimensional rotating black holes

Physical Review D

We wish to carry forward to higher dimensions the insightful and novel method of obtaining the Kerr metric proposed by one of us [Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 45, 2383 (2013)] for deriving the Myers-Perry rotating black hole metric. We begin with a flat spacetime metric written in oblate spheroidal coordinates (ellipsoidal geometry) appropriate for the inclusion of rotation, and then introduce arbitrary functions to introduce a gravitational potential due to mass, which are then determined by requiring that a massless particle experiences no acceleration, while a massive particle feels Newtonian acceleration at large r. We further generalize the method to include the cosmological constant Λ to obtain the Myers-Perryde Sitter/anti-de Sitter black hole metric.

Off-diagonal deformations of kerr black holes in Einstein and modified massive gravity and higher dimensions

The European Physical Journal C, 2014

We find general parameterizations for generic off-diagonal spacetime metrics and matter sources in general relativity (GR) and modified gravity theories when the field equations decouple with respect to certain types of nonholonomic frames of reference. This allows us to construct various classes of exact solutions when the coefficients of the fundamental geometric/physical objects depend on all spacetime coordinates via corresponding classes of generating and integration functions and/or constants. Such (modified) spacetimes display Killing and non-Killing symmetries, describe nonlinear vacuum configurations and effective polarizations of cosmological and interaction constants. Our method can be extended to higher dimensions which simplifies some proofs for embedded and nonholonomically constrained four-dimensional configurations. We reproduce the Kerr solution and show how to deform it nonholonomically into new classes of generic off-diagonal solutions depending on 3-8 spacetime coordinates. Certain examples of exact solutions are analyzed and they are determined by contributions of a new type of interactions with sources in massive gravity and/or modified f(R,T) gravity. We conclude that by considering generic off-diagonal nonlinear parametric interactions in GR it is possible to mimic various effects in massive and/or modified gravity, or to distinguish certain classes of "generic" modified gravity solutions which cannot be encoded in GR.

Hidden symmetries of higher-dimensional black holes and uniqueness of the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime

Physical Review D, 2008

We prove that the most general solution of the Einstein equations with the cosmological constant which admits a principal conformal Killing-Yano tensor is the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS metric. Even when the Einstein equations are not imposed, any spacetime admitting such hidden symmetry can be written in a canonical form which guarantees the following properties: it is of the Petrov type D, it allows the separation of variables for the Hamilton-Jacobi, Klein-Gordon, and Dirac equations, the geodesic motion in such a spacetime is completely integrable. These results naturally generalize the results obtained earlier in four dimensions.

Detailed study of geodesics in the Kerr-Newman-(A)dS spacetime and the rotating charged black hole spacetime in f ðRÞ gravity

We perform a detailed study of the geodesic equations in the spacetime of the static and rotating charged black hole corresponding to the Kerr-Newman-(A)dS spacetime. We derive the equations of motion for test particles and light rays and present their solutions in terms of the Weierstrass ℘, ζ, and σ functions as well as the Kleinian σ function. With the help of parametric diagrams and effective potentials, we analyze the geodesic motion and classify the possible orbit types. This spacetime is also a solution of fðRÞ gravity with a constant curvature scalar.

The symmetries of Kerr black holes

Communications in Mathematical Physics, 1973

The Kerr solution describes, in Einstein's theory, the gravitational field of a rotating black hole. The axial symmetry and stationarity of the solution are shown here to arise in a simple way from properties of the curvature tensor.

Hidden Symmetries of Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes

Physical Review Letters, 2007

We demonstrate that the rotating black holes in an arbitrary number of dimensions and without any restrictions on their rotation parameters possess the same 'hidden' symmetry as the 4dimensional Kerr metric. Namely, besides the spacetime symmetries generated by the Killing vectors they also admit the (antisymmetric) Killing-Yano and symmetric Killing tensors.