Published December 21, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Spinning loop black holes

  • 1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St, Waterloo, Ontario, N2 L 2Y5 (Canada)

Description

In this paper, we construct four Kerr-like spacetimes starting from the loop black hole (LBH) Schwarzschild solutions and applying the Newman-Janis transformation. In previous papers, the Schwarzschild LBH was obtained replacing the Ashtekar connection with holonomies on a particular graph in a minisuperspace approximation which describes the black hole interior. Starting from this solution, we use a Newman-Janis transformation and restrict our study to two different and natural complexifications inspired from the complexifications of the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstroem metrics. We show explicitly that the spacetimes obtained in this way are singularity free and thus there are no naked singularities. We show that the transformation moves, if any, the causality violating regions of the Kerr metric far from r = 0. We study the spacetime structure paying particular attention to the shape of the horizons. We conclude the paper with a discussion on a regular Reissner-Nordstroem black hole derived from the Schwarzschild LBH and then apply again the Newmann-Janis transformation.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/24/245022

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/27/24/245022;
PII
S0264-9381(10)64053-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
24
Journal Page Range
[31 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42032996
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; ASTROPHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; CAUSALITY; COSMOLOGY; KERR METRIC; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC; SINGULARITY; SPACE-TIME; TRANSFORMATIONS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; METRICS; PHYSICS