An extended Kerr-Schild ansatz

作者:Ett Benjamin*; Kastor David
来源:Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2010, 27(18): 185024.
DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/27/18/185024

摘要

We present an analysis of the vacuum Einstein equations for a recently proposed extension of the Kerr-Schild ansatz that includes a spacelike vector field as well as the usual Kerr-Schild null vector. We show that many, although not all, of the simplifications that occur in the Kerr-Schild case continue to hold for the extended ansatz. In particular, we find a simple set of sufficient conditions on the vectors such that the vacuum field equations truncate beyond quadratic order in an expansion around a general vacuum background solution. We extend our analysis to the electrovac case with a related ansatz for the gauge field.

  • 出版日期2010-9-21