Discovering the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics
Roy P. Kerr
TL;DR
This paper provides a historical overview of how the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics were discovered in the 1960s and explains their significance as models of rotating black holes.
Contribution
It offers a detailed historical account and physical interpretation of the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics, highlighting their importance in black hole physics.
Findings
Identification of the Kerr metric as describing rotating black holes
Historical insights into the discovery process
Clarification of the physical meaning of Kerr-Schild metrics
Abstract
An historical account of the reasoning that led to the discovery of the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics in 1963-1964, and their physical interpretation as rotating black holes, is presented.
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies