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Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom

B. Carter

Physical Review Letters, 1971

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Abstract

A theorem is described which establishes the claim that in a certain canonical sense the Kerr metrics represent "the" (rather than merely "some possible") exterior fields of black holes with the corresponding mass and angular-momentum values.

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