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The Ernst equation and ergosurfaces

Piotr T. Chrusciel, Gert-Martin Greuel, Reinhard Meinel, Sebastian J. Szybka

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0603041

Abstract

We show that analytic solutions of the Ernst equation with non-empty zero-level-set of lead to smooth ergosurfaces in space-time. In fact, the space-time metric is smooth near a "Ernst ergosurface" Ef if and only if is smooth near Ef and does not have zeros of infinite order there.

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