2021/12/07 by Christian Kunz, Kunz, Christian
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.04015
openalex publication_date 2021/12/07 · openalex created_date 2022/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ingoing and outgoing principal null geodesics in Kerr spacetimes are characterized as part of parametrized families of strings in complex Kerr geometry and are associated with holomorphic curves in twistor space with help of the Kerr theorem. They are defined on 2-dimensional twistor manifolds, one for outgoing and one for ingoing principal null congruences, and are solutions of free twistor string models on these 2-dimensional twistor manifolds. Such a twistor string model implies a conformal field theory and, assuming the applicability of the Cardy formula, agreement with the Bekenstein-Hawking area law can be achieved depending on the effective central charge and temperature. A couple of (ambi)twistor string candidate models are examined.