Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom
Abstract
A theorem is described which establishes the claim that in a certain canonical sense the Kerr metrics represent "the" (rather than merely "some possible") exterior fields of black holes with the corresponding mass and angular-momentum values.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.331
- Bibcode:
- 1971PhRvL..26..331C