KerrâSchild perturbations are a special type of perturbation to a spacetime metric which only appear linearly in the Einstein field equations which describe general relativity. They were found by Roy Kerr and Alfred Schild in 1965. [1]
A generalised KerrâSchild perturbation has the form , where is a scalar and is a null vector with respect to the background spacetime. [2] It can be shown that any perturbation of this form will only appear quadratically in the Einstein equations, and only linearly if the condition , where is a scalar, is imposed. This condition is equivalent to requiring that the orbits of are geodesics. [2]
While the form of the perturbation may appear very restrictive, there are several black hole metrics which can be written in KerrâSchild form, such as Schwarzschild (stationary black hole), Kerr (rotating), ReissnerâNordström (charged) and KerrâNewman (both charged and rotating). [2] [3]
KerrâSchild perturbations are a special type of perturbation to a spacetime metric which only appear linearly in the Einstein field equations which describe general relativity. They were found by Roy Kerr and Alfred Schild in 1965. [1]
A generalised KerrâSchild perturbation has the form , where is a scalar and is a null vector with respect to the background spacetime. [2] It can be shown that any perturbation of this form will only appear quadratically in the Einstein equations, and only linearly if the condition , where is a scalar, is imposed. This condition is equivalent to requiring that the orbits of are geodesics. [2]
While the form of the perturbation may appear very restrictive, there are several black hole metrics which can be written in KerrâSchild form, such as Schwarzschild (stationary black hole), Kerr (rotating), ReissnerâNordström (charged) and KerrâNewman (both charged and rotating). [2] [3]