2018/04/30 by Eamonn Corrigan, Eric Poisson
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Event (particle physics) #Event horizon #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Gravitation #History #Horizon #Mathematical physics #Perturbation (astronomy) #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aac730
6 pages, revised after referee reports, matches published version
openalex publication_date 2018/05/23 · arxiv created 2018/06/04 · arxiv updated 2018/06/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract We prove that the EZ gauge of black-hole perturbation theory, introduced by the late Steve Detweiler in his exploration of the physical consequences of the gravitational self-force, is necessarily singular at the event horizon.