Journal of High Energy Physics (Jan 2022)

Note on the asymptotic structure of Kerr-Schild form

  • Pujian Mao,
  • Weicheng Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2022)030
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

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Abstract The Kerr-Schild form provides a natural way of realizing the classical double copy that relates exact solutions in general relativity to exact solutions in gauge theory. In this paper, we examine the asymptotic structure of Kerr-Schild form. In Newman-Unti gauge, we find a generic solution space satisfying the Kerr-Schild form in series expansion around null infinity. The news function in the solution space is chiral and can not lead to a mass loss formula. A class of asymptotically flat complex pp-wave solutions in closed form is obtained from the solution space.

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