Unit-lapse versions of the Kerr spacetime
arXiv:2008.03817 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/abd071
Abstract
The Kerr spacetime is perhaps the most astrophysically important of the currently known exact solutions to the Einstein field equations. Whenever spacetimes can be put in unit-lapse form it becomes possible to identify some very straightforward timelike geodesics, (the "rain" geodesics), making the physical interpretation of these spacetimes particularly clean and elegant. The most well-known of these unit-lapse formulations is the Painleve-Gullstrand form of the Schwarzschild spacetime, though there is also a Painleve-Gullstrand form of the Lense-Thirring (slow rotation) spacetime. More radically there are also two known unit-lapse forms of the Kerr spacetime -- the Doran and Natario metrics -- though these are not precisely in Painleve-Gullstrand form. Herein we shall seek to explicate the most general unit-lapse form of the Kerr spacetime. While at one level this is "merely" a choice of coordinates, it is a strategically and tactically useful choice of coordinates, thereby making the technically challenging but astrophysically crucial Kerr spacetime somewhat easier to deal with.
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