Discovering the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics
Abstract
An historical account of the reasoning that led to the discovery of the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics in 1963-1964, and their physical interpretation as rotating black holes, is presented.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2007
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0706.1109
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0706.1109
- Bibcode:
- 2007arXiv0706.1109K
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 34 pages, 2 figures, cupbook.cls. To appear in "The Kerr Spacetime", Eds D.L. Wiltshire, M. Visser and S.M. Scott, Cambridge Univ. Press