Brandon Carter
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Brandon Carter (born 1942) is a 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 CNRS in Paris.
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 axisymmetric 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.
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- Carter, B. (1968). "Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields". Phys. Rev. 174: 1559-1571.
- Carter, B. (1968). "Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations". Commun. Math. Phys. 10: 280-310.
- Carter, B. (1970). "An axisymmetric black hole has only two degrees of freedom". Phys. Rev. Lett. 26: 331-333.
- Carter, B.; & Hartle, J. B. (Editors) (1987). Gravitation in astrophysics, Cargese, 1986. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-42590-4.
- Carter, B.; & Chachoua, Elie; & Chamel, Nicolas. Covariant Newtonian and Relativistic dynamics of (magneto)-elastic solid model for neutron star crust. Retrieved on August 6, 2005.
