The Weyl double copy builds the relation between gauge theory and gravity theory, in particular the correspondence between gauge solutions and gravity solutions. In this paper, we obtain the slowly rotating charge solutions from the Weyl double copy for the Kerr black hole with small Chern–Simons correction. Based on the Weyl double copy relation, for the Petrov type D solution in Chern–Simons modified gravity, we find the additional correction to the electromagnetic field strength tensor of the rotating charge. For the Petrov type I solution, we find that the additional electromagnetic field strength tensors have external sources, while the total sources vanish at the leading order.
Yi-Ran Liu, Jing-Rui Zhang, Yun-Long Zhang. Slowly rotating charges from Weyl double copy for Kerr black hole with Chern–Simons correction[J]. Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2024, 76(8): 085405. DOI: 10.1088/1572-9494/ad4a37
1. Introduction
The double copy as a rather old topic was first studied in string theory, then found in a now frontier realm of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, such as the Kawai–Lewellen–Tye (KLT) relation [1] and the Bern–Carrasco–Johansen (BCJ) relation [2, 3]. Intrigued by the successful structure of double copy in the scattering amplitudes, its classical counterpart of field equations has been investigated with some attempts given in [4–6]. Since the double copy has always been perturbative in quantum field theory, it is particularly appealing that exact relations between the classical solutions of gauge and gravity theory make sense, e.g. as the double copy and black hole solutions in [7]. A succinct review for recent progress can be found in [8].
Preliminary attempts on the classical version of double copy have been put in the certain class of solutions that linearise the classical field equations. Kerr–Schild metrics belong to this class, and so do certain multi-Kerr–Schild metrics. The Kerr–Schild double copy has been investigated in [7], with interesting applications in the Kerr–Taub-NUT solution [9]. Also, the Eguchi–Hanson metric was studied in this context using the Kerr–Schild double copy [10]. More recent discussions about the Kerr–Schild double copy can be found in [11–16].
In order to derive a more generic exact double copy, and inspired by the Petrov classification [17], the Weyl double copy was invented, treating solutions of gauge fields as the ‘single copy'. The preliminary version of Weyl double copy deals with Petrov type D solutions of Einstein equation and discuss the plausibility of double copy being extended to more general type of spacetime [18]. Some other equivalent interpretations of double copy have been established with various methods [19–28], as well as in the perturbative theories [29–42]. The Weyl double copy has been investigated in the fluid/gravity duality [43, 44] and in gravitational waves [45]. A twistorial foundation of the Weyl double copy has also been proposed in linearized level [46, 47], which has been applied in topological massive gravity and massive gauge theory in three dimension [48]. Some substances on double copy on curved space have been discussed in [49–51], and the hidden symmetry of double copy was given in [52]. The asymptotic formula of Weyl double copy can be found in [53], as well as the Newman–Penrose version of that [54]. The classical double copy has become an active area, and different aspects of classical double copy have aroused many interests [55–60].
In this paper, we study the Weyl double copy for slowly rotating a black hole in Chern–Simons modified gravity. For the Kerr black hole solution, there is a concise and fully detailed context in [61]. The Chern–Simons modified gravity has aroused many interests, and has been applied to cosmology and astrophysics [62, 63]. It is a modified Einstein gravity, and the equations derived from its Lagrangian are not in vacuum, but carrying a source. Thus, to study its single copy, the need for a sourced double copy is self-evident. A primary discussion on sourced Weyl double copy was given in [64], and we can see some later progress in [65]. We will use the perturbative solutions of slowly rotating black holes in Chern–Simons modified gravity [66], and the Petrov type solution provided in [67].
This paper is organized as follows: section 2 is an overview of the Weyl double copy for the Kerr black hole and a brief introduction to Chern–Simons modified gravity. We derive the Weyl double copy for the Petrov type D solution of slowly rotating a black hole in Chern–Simons modified gravity in section 3, and for the Petrov type I solution of that in section 4. We make conclusions and discussions in section 5.
2. Notation and setup
All throughout, we take the geometry units: c = 1 and G = 1 and stick to the following conventions: the Greek letters {μ, ν, …} stand for the indices of curved spacetime, lowercase Latin letters {a, b, …} are denoted as flat indices, and the metric signature is (−1, 1, 1, 1). Capital Latin letters {A, B, …} represent spinor indices. Some of the notations are base on the solution classification in [17], and spinor techniques in [68–70].
2.1. Newman–Penrose formulation
In the Newman–Penrose formalism, the metric can be decomposed into four null tetrad vectors
where $\bar{{\rm{\Psi }}}$ are the complex conjugate of $\Psi$, and the left-hand side is the result of tensors with each indices contracted with ${\sigma }_{A\dot{A}}^{\mu }$. One can always use the inverse vierbein to contract with the analogy of tensors (13) to get the pure tensor form.
We make use of the notations from [65] but slightly different from their choice because of the vierbein deformation here. The basis is associated with the frame tetrad by
The key idea of the Weyl double copy is a square relation between exact solutions in gravity and in (flat spacetime) gauge theory [18], which was written as
which satisfies the vacuum equation of motion DμDμφ = 0. We use ∇μ to denote the covariant derivative in the gravitational spacetime, and Dμ to denote the covariant derivative in flat spacetime with rotation. Note that the ‘r' here is related with the ordinary radial coordinate r through the rotation [71]. Then, the corresponding Maxwell spinor as the single copy can be obtained as
where the Pontryagin density $R\tilde{R}\equiv {R}_{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }\,{\tilde{R}}^{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }$, and ${\tilde{R}}^{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }\equiv \tfrac{1}{2}{\varepsilon }^{\rho \sigma \alpha \beta }{R}_{\quad \alpha \beta }^{\mu \nu }$. We consider the dynamical framework of the field ϑ, which leads to a non-vanishing stress energy tensor
In this section, we will showcase our work for type D black hole solutions in Chern–Simons modified gravity. By inserting the slow-rotation limit, Yunes and Pretorius found the perturbative black hole solution in the full dynamical framework [63], the leading order solutions for the metric and field ϑ are
${\rm{d}}{s}_{({\rm{K}})\,}^{2}$ means slow-rotation limit of the Kerr metric. Up to order ${ \mathcal O }\,({\alpha }^{2}a)$ and ${ \mathcal O }\,({a}^{2})$, the non-vanishing components of the metric are
Now we use a tetrad, which is similar to the Kinnersley tetrad, but with some adjustments to the metric in (27), and accurate up to ${ \mathcal O }\,({\alpha }^{2}a)$ and ${ \mathcal O }\,({a}^{2})$.
is also used to represent the results in a compact form, where ' means the partial derivative respect to r. In the following, we will use two kinds of choices for the zeroth copy (scalar fields φ[a] and φ[b]), and decompose the Weyl spinor (33) into the gauge fields as:
Therefore, we can derive the slowly rotating charges with sourced electromagnetic field from the Weyl double copy formula for the Petrov type D solution (27). The corresponding Maxwell field strength tensor is corrected as
where the Maxwell field strength tensor ${F}_{\mu \nu }^{({\rm{K}})}$ represents the single copy of the Kerr black hole, with non-vanishing components up to ${ \mathcal O }\,({a}^{2})$,
The resulting field strength tensor is also consistent with the gauge potential in reference [7], up to the constant coefficient. The non-vanishing components of the correction ${F}_{\mu \nu }^{(\alpha )}$ due to Chern–Simons term are
Notice that, the components of ${f}_{{AB}}^{[{\rm{b}}]}$ are equal to that in (22), which is the single copy of pure Kerr black hole spacetime. However, due to the correction of ${\sigma }_{{AB}}^{\mu \nu }$ and tetrad (32) in this order, the tensor form of the single copy still has additional terms. We obtain the composition of Maxwell field strength tensor as
Notice that the non-vanishing component can also be written as ${J}_{\phi }^{[{\rm{b}}]}=\tfrac{\alpha q{\;\sin }^{2}\;\theta }{12M}\,({r}^{2}\omega ^{\prime\prime} )\,^{\prime} ={\partial }_{r}\,{F}_{r\phi }^{(\omega )}$.
4. Petrov type I solution
The quadratic deformation of the slowly rotating black holes in Chern–Simons modified gravity has been studied in [66], and so was the Petrov type of this solution in their later work [67]. We will discuss in this section how the modification of Chern–Simons terms is added to the slowing rotating black hole and show non-trivial examples for the Weyl double copy in the Petrov type I spacetime.
For the Petrov type I spacetime, the Weyl scalars $\Psi$0 and $\Psi$4 in (17) vanish by careful choice of tetrad. By using principle null directions formula and the null rotation transformation in the appendix, it was found in [67] that the Kerr tetrad can be corrected as
Here, the higher order terms of ${ \mathcal O }\,({\alpha }^{2}a,\alpha {a}^{2})$ have been dropped for brevity. The corresponding non-vanishing Weyl scalars are
Before we start to build the double copy structure for Chern–Simons modified gravity, we just have to retrospect to specific works on the general type double copy. There has been some research that has developed a new point of view of how we treat classical double copy for the Petrov type I spacetime [46, 47].
Now we take a quick look at the Weyl spinor of Petrov type I spacetime. With the special choice of the tetrad in (51), the Weyl spinor reads
Whenever each part of the right-hand side of (56) are multiplied together, the product also carries symmetrization. So there is no need to worry about commutation between the spinors. What is left to deal with is some simple algebra, then polynomial equations from (55) read:
where ${f}_{{AB}}^{({\rm{K}})}$ is the spinning Maxwell charge as shown in (22). As we suspected, due to the consideration of Chern–Simons modified gravity, so the Maxwell spinors should also be altered.
The Maxwell spinor with those parameters (58) can also be denoted as
Thus, through the generalized Weyl double copy, we have found the more general type of electromagnetic fields, though they show differences at spinorial level.
Here, the leading order Maxwell spinor ${f}_{{AB}}^{[0]}$ is the same as the initial Kerr set up (22) below:
From (60), the Maxwell field strength tensors ${F}_{\mu \nu }^{[{a}_{1}]}$ and ${F}_{\mu \nu }^{[{b}_{1}]}$ can also be obtained, and the non-vanishing components are:
While the rest of the components are identical to zero. Notice that there is a sign difference between their components ${F}_{t\phi }^{[{a}_{1}]}$ and ${F}_{t\phi }^{[{b}_{1}]}$.
With these electromagnetic field strength tensors, which are obtained from spinor basis through the spinor-tensor transformation, we can derive the source currents as below
Here, the covariant differential operator Dμ is the covariant derivative in rotational flat spacetime.
In the leading order, the sources of the Maxwell fields have been split into two parts while they are dealt with separately as three fields. What is unforeseen is that the field strength tensor is a bit different from what is set in the slowly rotating charge, that is because of the certain order we set. The corrected information such as ${{\rm{\Psi }}}_{1}^{\mathrm{CS}}$ and ${{\rm{\Psi }}}_{3}^{\mathrm{CS}}$ in (52) will only be harvested through high order ansatz, so that the higher order terms are cutoff and the low order information is preserved. From the initial settings, we can deduce that the metric is the principal key to determine whether the derived electromagnetic field is sourced or not. The corrections to the slowly rotating charge spinors in (59) are counteracted by the new added ones, and it can be interpreted as the ‘neutralization' contained in the process.
5. Conclusion
In this paper, we studied the Weyl double copy for slowly rotating black hole with small Chern–Simons correction. Based on the basic concept of the double copy formula and the slowly rotating black hole solutions in Chern–Simons modified gravity, we take a step further to extend the Weyl double copy from the classical Einstein gravity to the Chern–Simons modified gravity, and verify the plausibility of special case examples. Based on the sourced double copy structure, we obtain the slowly rotating charge solutions with an external source from the slowly rotating black hole solution in Chern–Simons modified gravity.
For the Petrov type D perturbative black hole solution in the Chern–Simons modified gravity, we find an additional correction of the electromagnetic field strength tensor obtained through the double copy relation. The correction appears at the intersection of the radial and azimuth coordinates, which is consistent with the correction of the metric.
For the Petrov type I perturbative black hole solution in the Chern–Simons modified gravity, we find that the additional electromagnetic field strength tensors have the same exogenous properties at specific orders through the double copy relation, while the Maxwell equation of the total electromagnetic field remains source-less at the leading order. This indicates that the metric might be the main factor that ensures whether the Maxwell equations carry source or not.
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2023YFC2206200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12375059) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
Appendix. Weyl scalar formalism
The derivation of Weyl scalar has already been examined in section 2.2, which can be used to gain a better understanding of the spacetime. There is another technique we have used in this paper, which is the null rotation transformation, which helps us to transform Weyl scalars such that $\Psi$0 = $\Psi$4 = 0 in the case of type I solutions. In general, the null transformation consists of three branches [17, 67].
Class I: l is fixed, and the rest of the tetrads are rotated as
Here A represents a complex rotation coefficient, and $\bar{A}$ stands for the complex conjugation of A. In this case, Weyl scalars are also transformed as
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