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Internal Structure of Charged AdS Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-06-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

When an electrically charged black hole is perturbed its inner horizon becomes a singularity, often referred to as the Poisson-Israel mass inflation singularity. Ori constructed a model of this phenomenon for asymptotically flat black holes, in which the metric can be determined explicitly in the mass inflation region. In this paper we implement the Ori model for charged AdS black holes. We find that the mass function inflates faster than the flat space case as the inner horizon is approached. Nevertheless, the mass inflation singularity is still a weak singularity: although spacetime curvature becomes infinite, tidal distortions remain finite on physical objects attempting to cross it.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03730,
  title  = {Internal Structure of Charged AdS Black Holes},
  author = {Srijit Bhattacharjee and Sudipta Sarkar and Amitabh Virmani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03730},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages; one pdf figure; v2 refs added, journal version