An extended solution space for Chern-Simons gravity: the slowly rotating Kerr black hole

TL;DR

This paper develops an iterative method to find solutions in non-dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, demonstrating that the slowly rotating Kerr black hole can be obtained as an $eta$-order correction starting from Schwarzschild.

Contribution

It introduces an iterative approach to derive solutions in Chern-Simons gravity and explicitly shows the Kerr black hole as a perturbative correction.

Findings

Kerr black hole is an $eta$-order solution in Chern-Simons gravity.

The method applies to arbitrary embedding parameters.

Provides a differential equation for metric corrections.

Abstract

In the Einstein-Cartan formulation, an iterative procedure to find solutions in non-dynamical Chern-Simons (CS) gravity in vacuum is proposed. The iterations, in powers of a small parameter $\beta$ which codifies the CS coupling, start from an arbitrary torsionless solution of Einstein equations. With Schwarzschild as the zeroth-order choice, we derive a second-order differential equation for the $\mathcal{O}(\beta)$ corrections to the metric, for an arbitrary zeroth-order embedding parameter. In particular, the slowly rotating Kerr metric is an $\mathcal{O}(\beta)$ solution in either the canonical or the axial embeddings.