Evidence for an Electrifying Violation of Cosmic Censorship
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We present a plausible counterexample to cosmic censorship in four dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory with asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions. Smooth initial data evolves to a region of arbitrarily large curvature that is visible to distant observers. Our example is based on a holographic model of an electrically charged, localised defect which was previously studied at zero temperature. We partially extend those results to nonzero temperatures.
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@article{arxiv.1604.06465,
title = {Evidence for an Electrifying Violation of Cosmic Censorship},
author = {Gary T. Horowitz and Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06465},
year = {2016}
}
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20 pages