For physical reasons, the black-hole equilibrium states are expected to be stationary. Spacetimes admitting a Killing symmetry exhibit a variety of interesting features, some of which will be discussed in this section. In particular, the existence of a Killing field implies a canonical local 3+1 decomposition of the metric. The projection formalism arising from this structure was developed by Geroch in the early seventies [125, 124], and can be found in Chapter 16 of the book on exact solutions by Kramer et al. [199].
A slightly different, rather powerful approach to stationary spacetimes is obtained by taking advantage
of their Kaluza–Klein (KK) structure. As this approach is less commonly used in the present context, we
will discuss the KK reduction of the Einstein–Hilbert(–Maxwell) action in some detail, the
more so as this yields an efficient derivation of the Ernst equations and the Mazur identity.
Moreover, the inclusion of non-Abelian gauge fields within this framework [35] reveals a decisive
structural difference between the Einstein–Maxwell (EM) and the Einstein–Yang–Mills (EYM)
system.
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