In the present paper, the characterization of the Kerr metric found by Marc Mars is extended to the Kerr-Newman family. A simultaneous alignment of the Maxwell field, the Ernst two-form of the pseudo-stationary Killing vector field, and the Weyl curvature of the metric is shown to imply that the space-time is locally isometric to domains in the Kerr-Newman metric. The paper also presents an extension of Ionescu and Klainerman's null tetrad formalism to explicitly include Ricci curvature terms. © 2009 Birkhäuser Verlag Basel/Switzerland.
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Wong, W. W. (2009). A Space-Time Characterization of the Kerr-Newman Metric. Annales Henri Poincare, 10(3), 453–484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-009-0414-z
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