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Brandon Carter

Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Publications -  151
Citations -  13324

Brandon Carter is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: String (physics) & Cosmic string. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 151 publications receiving 12132 citations. Previous affiliations of Brandon Carter include Paris Observatory & University of Cambridge.

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The four laws of black hole mechanics

TL;DR: This article derived expressions for the mass of a stationary axisymmetric solution of the Einstein equations containing a black hole surrounded by matter and for the difference in mass between two neighboring such solutions.
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Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that in all except the spherically symmetric cases there is a nontrivial causality violation, i.e., there are closed timelike lines which are not removable by taking a covering space; moreover, when the charge or angular momentum is so large that there are no Killing horizons, this causal violation is of the most flagrant possible kind in that it is possible to connect any event to any other by a future-directed time line.
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Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations

TL;DR: In this article, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the geodesies is solved by separation of variables in such a way that a certain natural canonical orthonormal tetrad is determined.
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Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that in a certain canonical sense, the Kerr metrics represent the exterior fields of black holes with the corresponding mass and angular-momentum values.