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Rotating Observers in Kerr Spacetime
I am learning about the Kerr metric and I am using the book Gravitation - Foundations and Frontiers by T. Padmanabhan.
While discussing a 'static limit' he considers an observer rotating with an ...
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Killing Horizons in the Kerr Metric
I seem to be quite confused with Killing vector fields, Killing horizons and null horizons, especially in the context of the Kerr metric. I have a couple of questions regarding this, and the text I am ...
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Systematic way of finding the Killing vector of a specific mass
I have a specific black hole solution (in AdS space) with a particular energy given. The energy was computed in the paper by assuming the validity of the first law ($dE = T dS + \Omega dJ + \Phi dQ$) ...
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Application of Fermi-Walker derivative to specific problem
I am now reading about the tetrad formalism in GR and I am starting (how not) with the Wikipedia Article:
Frame fields in general relativity.
In this article, as an example, they show how tetrads can ...
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Killing vectors of Schwarzschild: Solution
In the solution of the Killing equations for Schwarzschild metric, $\nabla_\mu\xi_\nu+\nabla_\nu\xi_\mu=0$ for rotational part of symmetry participate Christoffel symbols with purely angular ...
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