Quasilocal Energy in Kerr Spacetime

Abstract: In this work we study the quasilocal energy as in [11] for a constant radius surface in Kerr spacetime in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. We show that under suitable conditions for isometric embedding, for a stationary observer the quasilocal energy defined in [11] for constant radius in a Kerr like spacetime is exactly equal to the Brown-York quasilocal energy [2]. By some careful estimations, we show that for a constant radius surface in the Kerr spacetime which is outside the ergosphere the embedding conditions for the previous result are satisfied. We discuss extremal solutions as described in [14]. We prove a uniqueness result. We find all extremal solutions in the Minkowski spacetime. Finally, we show that near the horizon of the Kerr spacetime for the small rotation case the extremal solutions are trivial.