Misplaced Pages

Kerr–Schild perturbations are a special type of perturbation to a spacetime metric which only appear linearly in the Einstein field equations which describe general relativity. They were found by Roy Kerr and Alfred Schild in 1965.

Form

A generalised Kerr–Schild perturbation has the form ${\displaystyle h_{ab}=Vl_{a}l_{b}}$, where ${\displaystyle V}$ is a scalar and ${\displaystyle l_{a}}$ is a null vector with respect to the background spacetime. It can be shown that any perturbation of this form will only appear quadratically in the Einstein equations, and only linearly if the condition ${\displaystyle l^{a}\nabla _{a}l_{b}=\phi l_{b}}$, where ${\displaystyle \phi }$ is a scalar, is imposed. This condition is equivalent to requiring that the orbits of ${\displaystyle l^{a}}$ are geodesics.

Applications

While the form of the perturbation may appear very restrictive, there are several black hole metrics which can be written in Kerr–Schild form, such as Schwarzschild (stationary black hole), Kerr (rotating), Reissner–Nordström (charged) and Kerr–Newman (both charged and rotating).

References

1. Kerr, R. P.; Schild, A. (2009). "Republication of: A new class of vacuum solutions of the Einstein field equations". General Relativity and Gravitation. 41 (10): 2485–2499. Bibcode:2009GReGr..41.2485K. doi:10.1007/s10714-009-0857-z. S2CID 361088.
2. ^ Harte, Abraham I.; Vines, Justin (2016). "Generating exact solutions to Einstein's equation using linearized approximations". Phys. Rev. D. 94 (8): 084009. arXiv:1608.04359. Bibcode:2016PhRvD..94h4009H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.084009. S2CID 28944975.
3. Balasin, Herbert; Nachbagauer, Herbert (1994). "Distributional energy–momentum tensor of the Kerr–Newman spacetime family". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 11 (6): 1453–1461. arXiv:gr-qc/9312028. Bibcode:1994CQGra..11.1453B. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/11/6/010. S2CID 6041750.

This relativity-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• General relativity
• Relativity stubs