An intrinsic characterization of the Kerr metric

Abstract

We give the necessary and sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be the Kerr solution. These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann tensor.

15 pages; v2: necessary conditions added to theorems 1 and 2, other minor changes

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