J B Griffiths and J Podolský 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 555 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/2/019
J B Griffiths1 and J Podolský2
Show affiliationsThe complete family of exact solutions representing accelerating and rotating black holes with possible electromagnetic charges and a NUT parameter is known in terms of a modified Plebański–Demiański metric. This demonstrates the singularity and horizon structure of the sources but not that the complete spacetime describes two causally separated black holes. To demonstrate this property, the metric is first cast in the Weyl–Lewis–Papapetrou form. After extending this up to the acceleration horizon, it is then transformed to the boost-rotation-symmetric form in which the global properties of the solution are manifest. The physical interpretation of these solutions is thus clarified.
04.70.-s Physics of black holes
04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure
Issue 2 (21 January 2006)
Received 24 October 2005, in final form 23 November 2005
Published 30 December 2005
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