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Rotating black hole metrics from the Newman-Janis algorithm meet the separability conditions, if certain mathematical requirements are placed on the line element.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Metrics obtained by the Newman-Janis algorithm enjoy these conditions, provided certain mathematical requirements are imposed on the line element.”
From Pedrotti and Vagnozzi (2024), arXiv 2404.07589. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 24 Oct 2026.
Newman-Janis algorithm:
A procedure that generates a rotating space-time metric from a non-rotating one by a particular change of coordinates.
line element:
The expression that gives the infinitesimal distance between nearby points in a space-time, and so defines its metric.
metric:
The mathematical description of the geometry of space-time, used to calculate how light and matter move.
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The paper
Quasinormal modes-shadow correspondence for rotating regular black holes
Davide Pedrotti and Sunny Vagnozzi
Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · published 2024 · arXiv 2404.07589
The paper extends the link between black hole ringing frequencies and shadow size to more general rotating space-times, and checks it for the rotating Bardeen and Hayward regular black holes.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 24 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The correspondence needs two equations, one for light-ray paths and one for a scalar wave field, to split into simpler separate parts. The claim says that rotating metrics built with the Newman-Janis algorithm can have this property if their line element is suitably restricted. If so, many rotating black hole models beyond Kerr could be tested by comparing gravitational-wave ringing with shadow images.
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What the authors did
The authors extended the quasinormal-mode and shadow-radius correspondence analytically to more general rotating space-times. They then explicitly verified it for the rotating Bardeen and Hayward regular black holes.
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What they found
The requirements for the quasinormal-mode and shadow-radius correspondence amount to separability of the null Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the Klein-Gordon equation.
The correspondence is explicitly verified for the rotating Bardeen and Hayward regular black holes, which both satisfy the separability requirements.
The authors conclude it holds for a wide range of axisymmetric space-times beyond Kerr, though much better observational sensitivity is needed to test it.
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"Metrics obtained by the Newman-Janis algorithm enjoy these conditions, provided certain mathematical requirements are imposed on the line element."
(Pedrotti et al., Physical review. D/Physical review. D., 2024)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Rotating black hole metrics from the Newman-Janis algorithm meet the separability conditions, if certain mathematical requirements are placed on the line element.
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Refuted if a metric obtained via the Newman–Janis algorithm that satisfies the specified mathematical requirements is shown to have non‑separable Hamilton–Jacobi or Klein–Gordon equations.
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