Brandon Carter

Brandon Carter.

Brandon Carter (* 1942 ) is an Australian theoretical physicist . He is best known for his work on black holes and for his formulation of the anthropic principle in its current form. Carter conducts research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, at the Paris- Meudon Observatory .

Carter studied at Cambridge University with Dennis Sciama . He made significant contributions to the "golden age" of general relativity in the 1960s and 1970s. Together with Werner Israel and Stephen Hawking , he proved the “ no hair theorem ” in general relativity, according to which static black holes are fully characterized by mass, angular momentum and charge. In the 1980s he formulated the doomsday argument .

In 2005 Carter, Chachoua and Chamel formulated a relativistic theory for elastic deformations in neutron stars .

Publications

• Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields . Phys. Rev. 174, 1968, 1559-1571.
• Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations . Commun. Math. Phys. 10, 1968, 280-310.
• An axisymmetric black hole has only two degrees of freedom . Phys. Rev. Lett. 26, 1970, 331-333.
• with James M. Bardeen , Stephen Hawking The four laws of black hole mechanics , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 31, 1973, 161-170
• with James Hartle (Ed.) Gravitation in astrophysics , Cargèse Lectures, 1986. New York: Plenum Press 1087. ISBN 0-306-42590-4 .
• The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes , in Hawking, Israel (Ed.) General Relativity. To Einstein Centenary Survey , Cambridge University Press 1979
• Black hole equilibrium states , in Bryce DeWitt , Cécile DeWitt-Morette (Eds.) Black Holes , Les Houches Lectures 1973

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carter, Chachoua, Chamel Covariant Newtonian and Relativistic dynamics of (magneto) -elastic solid model for neutron star crust , General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 38, 2005, pp. 83-119