Kerr--Newman Memory Effect

We bring the Kerr--Newman spacetime into the Bondi--Sachs gauge by means of zero angular momentum, null geodesics. We compute the memory effect produced at the black hole horizon by a transient gravitational shock wave, which from future null infinity is seen as a Bondi-Metzner-Sachs supertranslatio...

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Main Authors Galoppo, Marco, Gaur, Rudeep, Harvey-Hawes, Christopher
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.07.2024
Subjects
Mathematics - Mathematical Physics
Physics - General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Physics - High Energy Physics - Theory
Physics - Mathematical Physics
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Summary:We bring the Kerr--Newman spacetime into the Bondi--Sachs gauge by means of zero angular momentum, null geodesics. We compute the memory effect produced at the black hole horizon by a transient gravitational shock wave, which from future null infinity is seen as a Bondi-Metzner-Sachs supertranslation. This results in a change of the supertransformation charges at infinity between the spacetime geometries defined by the black hole before, and after, the shockwave scattering. For an extremal Kerr--Newman black hole, we give the complementary description of this process in the near-horizon limit, as seen by an observer hovering over the horizon. In this limit, we compute the supertranformation charges and compare them to those calculated at null infinity. We analyze the effect of these transformations on the electromagnetic gauge field and explore the self-interaction between this and the angular momentum of the black hole.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2407.15289