Angular Momentum and the Kerr Metric
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 9 (6) , 905-906
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1664657
Abstract
For Kerr's rotating metric, it is shown that −ma is the angular momentum of the body where m is the mass and a is the rotation parameter. This is true even for large m and a.Keywords
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