DISTRIBUTIONAL ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR OF THE EXTENDED KERR GEOMETRY

Authors
Citation
H. Balasin, DISTRIBUTIONAL ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR OF THE EXTENDED KERR GEOMETRY, Classical and quantum gravity, 14(12), 1997, pp. 3353-3362
Citations number
15
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
14
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Pages
3353 - 3362
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1997)14:12<3353:DETOTE>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We generalize previous work on the energy-momentum tensor distribution of the Kerr geometry by extending the manifold structure into the neg ative mass region. Since the extension of the flat part of the Kerr-Sc hild decomposition from one sheet to the double cover develops a singu larity at the branch surface, we have to take its non-smoothness into account. It is, however, possible to find a geometry within the genera lized Kerr-Schild class that is, in the Colombeau sense, associated to the maximally analytic Kerr metric.