On the discrete version of the Kerr–Newman solution.

This paper continues our work on black holes in the framework of the Regge calculus, where the discrete version (with a certain edge length scale b proportional to the Planck scale) of the classical solution emerges as an optimal starting point for the perturbative expansion after functional integration over the connection, with the singularity resolved. An interest in the present discrete Kerr–Newman-type solution (with the parameter a ≫ b) may be to check the classical prediction that the electromagnetic contribution to the metric and curvature on the singularity ring is (infinitely) greater than the contribution of the δ -function-like mass distribution, no matter how small the electric charge is. Here, we encounter a kind of a discrete diagram technique, but with three-dimensional (static) diagrams and with only a few diagrams, although with modified (extended to complex coordinates) propagators. The metric (curvature) in the vicinity of the former singularity ring is considered. The electromagnetic contribution does indeed have a relative factor that is infinite at b → 0 , but, taking into account some existing estimates of the upper bound on the electric charge of known substances, it is not so large for habitual bodies and can only be significant for practically nonrotating black holes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]