English

Destroying Kerr-Sen black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-03-23 v3

Abstract

By neglecting the self-force, self-energy, and radiative effects, it has been shown that an extremal or near-extremal Kerr-Newman black hole can turn into a naked singularity when it captures charged and spinning massive particles. A straightforward question then arises: do charged and rotating black holes in string theory possess the same property? In this paper we apply the Wald's gedanken experiment, in his study on the possibility of destroying extremal Kerr-Newman black holes, to the case of (near-)extremal Kerr-Sen black holes. We find that feeding a test particle into a (near-)extremal Kerr-Sen black hole could lead to a violation of the extremal bound for the black hole.

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@article{arxiv.1512.01654,
  title  = {Destroying Kerr-Sen black holes},
  author = {Haryanto M. Siahaan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01654},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures; v2: 13 pages, refs are added, figures are improved, some conclusions are changed