Friday, January 30, 2015

general relativity - Closed timelike curves in the Kerr metric


I just read in Landau-Lifshitz that the Kerr metric admits closed timelike curves in the region $r \in (0, r_{hor})$ where $r_{hor}$ is the event-horizon ( I am talking about the case $|M|>|a|$ (subextremal case) here ). Now, unfortunately they don't give an example of such a curve. Could anybody of you write down explicitly such a CTC so that I could go through the computation once by myself. I would really like to see this once.


If anything is unclear, please let me know.




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