Einstein-Maxwell theory and the Weyl double copy
Damien A. Easson, Tucker Manton, Andrew Svesko
Abstract
The Weyl double copy relates vacuum solutions in general relativity to Abelian gauge fields in Minkowski spacetime. In a previous work, we showed how the Weyl double copy can be extended to provide a treatment of external gravitational sources consistent with the classical Kerr-Schild double copy. Using this generalization, here we provide a complete double-copy analysis of electrovacuum Petrov type-D spacetimes. This includes the first analysis of the charged C metric, whose single-copy interpretation invokes the two-potential formalism of electrodynamics. We also present the first double-copy prescription for the Ricci spinor, which for nonaccelerating spacetimes, takes a form similar to the original double-copy relation for the Weyl spinor.