Brandon Carter
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Brandon Carter (born 1942) is an
Australian
theoretical physicist, best known for his work on the properties of
black holes and for being the first to name and employ the
anthropic principle in its contemporary form. He is a researcher at the
Meudon campus of the
Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of the
CNRS.After studying at
Cambridge under
Dennis Sciama, Carter made several important contributions to the
golden age of general relativity. He found the exact solution of the
geodesic equations for the
Kerr/Newman electrovacuum solution, and the
maximal analytic extension of this solution. In the process, he discovered the extraordinary
fourth constant of motion and the
Killing-Yano tensor. Together with
Werner Israel and
Stephen Hawking, he proved the
no-hair theorem in
general relativity, stating that all stationary
black holes are completely characterized by
mass,
charge, and
angular momentum. More recently, Carter, Chachoua, and Chamel (2005) have formulated a relativistic theory of elastic deformations in
neutron stars.
References
- JOURNAL, Carter, B., Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields, Phys. Rev., 1968, 174, 1559–1571, 10.1103/PhysRev.174.1559,
- JOURNAL, Carter, B., Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations, Commun. Math. Phys., 1968, 10, 280–310,weblink
- JOURNAL, Carter, B., An axisymmetric black hole has only two degrees of freedom, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1970, 26, 331–333, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.331,
- BOOK, Carter, B.; & Hartle, J. B. (Editors), Gravitation in astrophysics, Cargese, 1986, New York, Plenum Press, 1987, 0-306-42590-4,
- WEB, Carter, B.; & Chachoua, Elie; & Chamel, Nicolas, Covariant Newtonian and Relativistic dynamics of (magneto)-elastic solid model for neutron star crust,weblink August 6 2005, mdy,
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