SageMath notebooks associated to the Black Hole Lectures (https://luth.obspm.fr/~luthier/gourgoulhon/bh16)
Reissner-Nordström black hole with a magnetic monopole
Spacetime manifold
We declare the Lorentzian manifold and the ingoing null Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates as a chart on :
We shall use the ingoing null Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates for they are regular on the black hole event horizon.
Metric tensor
We introduce the parameters , and , where is the ADM (= Komar) mass and and are related to the electric charge and the magnetic charge via We are using SI units and in the following we set (in addition to and ).
The event horizon is located at , with :
A generic point on :
Ricci tensor
The Ricci scalar vanishes indentically:
Einstein tensor
Electromagnetic field
To form the electromagnetic field 2-form , we shall need the 1-forms , , , and . We get them from the coframe associated to the coordinate chart X
:
We can then write the electromagnetic field in terms of wedge products as:
Maxwell equations
Let us check that obeys the source-free Maxwell equations:
An equivalent check is the vanishing of the divergences and :
Energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field
To evaluate the energy-momentum tensor, we need the scalar , which we compute as follows:
The type-(1,1) tensor :
The energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field:
Check of the Einstein equation
Pseudo-electric field and pseudo-magnetic field
The stationary Killing vector field :
is null on :
The pseudo-electric field 1-form is defined by . It would be the electric field measured by the observer of 4-velocity if would be a unit timelike vector, which it is not, except for .
is a closed 1-form:
is actually an exact 1-form:
The vector field associated to by metric duality:
We note that is collinear to on the event horizon :
The pseudo-magnetic field 1-form is defined by ; as for it fails to be a genuine magnetic field because is not a unit timelike vector.
We note that is collinear to and that it is a closed 1-form as well:
As , is actually an exact 1-form:
The vector field associated to by metric duality:
Electromagnetic potential
Since obeys the source-free Maxwell equation , we may introduce locally a 1-form such that . However, unless , cannot be a globally regular 1-form, as we shall discuss below.
We have actually :
The 1-form which appears in the proof of the generalized Smarr formula without magnetic monopole:
Regularity of the fields , , , and
To assess the regularity of the fields on the axis or , we introduce a Cartesian-like coordinate system:
is perfectly regular in all the region :
while is singular on the axis or if :
is singular there as well:
The scalar potentials and are regular in all the region :