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Schwarzschild spacetime (changes) in nLab

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Context

Gravity

gravity, supergravity

Formalism

Definition

Spacetime configurations

Properties

Spacetimes

black hole spacetimesvanishing angular momentumpositive angular momentum
vanishing chargeSchwarzschild spacetimeKerr spacetime
positive chargeReissner-Nordstrom spacetimeKerr-Newman spacetime

Quantum theory

Physics

physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics

Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes


theory (physics), model (physics)

experiment, measurement, computable physics

Contents

Idea

The spacetime that describes a black hole with a given mass. And nothing else.

Described for instance by Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates.

black hole spacetimesvanishing angular momentumpositive angular momentum
vanishing chargeSchwarzschild spacetimeKerr spacetime
positive chargeReissner-Nordstrom spacetimeKerr-Newman spacetime

References

With attention to its conformal geometry (conformal boundary):

In higher dimensions:

  • F.R. Tangherlini, Schwarzschild field in nn dimensions and the dimensionality of space problem, Nuovo Cim. 27 (1963) 636.

  • R.C. Myers and M.J. Perry, Black holes in higher dimensional space-times, Ann. Phys. (NY) 172 (1986) 304.

On approximating Schwarzschild black holes as bound states of Reissner-Nordström black holes:

  • Raphaël Dulac, Pierre Heidmann: Building the Blocks of Schwarzschild [[arXiv:2404.18994](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18994)]

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