The Kerr line element presented in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 15:34:25 UTC Robert McNees

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   Before saying any more about Kerr's solution, there's a very sad story attached to this worl.

   The Kerr metric is usually presented in "Boyer-Lindquist" coordinates, which makes its nature as a rotating, axisymmetric, spherical object more apparent.

   They submitted their paper presenting these coordinates in July of 1966.

   https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jmp/article-abstract/8/2/265/233738/Maximal-Analytic-Extension-of-the-Kerr-Metric?redirectedFrom=PDF