Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom
- 8 February 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 26 (6) , 331-333
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.26.331
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.Keywords
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