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Sunday, February 7, 2016

The Weyl tensor of the five-dimensional Myers-Perry metric

In this post I write the Weyl tensor of the Myers-Perry black hole as a sum of squares.
The metric of the Myers-Perry black hole is ds2=dt2+ρ2R2dr2+ρ2dθ2+ρ2(sin2θdϕ2+cos2θdψ2)+2mρ2(dtasin2θdϕacos2θdψ)2
with ρ2=r2+a2 and R2=(r2+a2)2r22m. This metric describes a rotating black hole with two equal angular frequencies.

The Weyl tensor Cμνκλ of the metric (1) can be decomposed as C=mρ2(2 FF+12 F  F+18FαβFαβg  g+ F2  g)
with F the anti-symmetric matrix defined by F=dA with A=1ρ2(dt+asin2θdϕ+acos2θdψ)
Furthermore, =the tensor product=the Kulkarni – Nomizu productF2=the symmetric matrix with components (F2)μν=FμλFλν
Remarks
  • The Wikipedia article about the Kulkarni – Nomizu product defines this product for symmetric matrices only, but I also use it in (2) for the anti-symmetric matrix Fμν
  • The form A has similarities to the potential of a charged rotating sphere. I do not know the reason for this resemblance.
  • Myers and Perry have written down the metric of a rotating black hole in D dimensions. I have not analyzed if a decomposition as (2) holds in general D.
  • A review of the Myers-Perry black holes can be found in arXiv:1111.1903
  • In a previous post, I decomposed the Weyl tensor of the Reissner–Nordström black hole.

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