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Near-Extreme Black Holes and the Universal Relaxation Bound

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A fundamental bound on the relaxation time \tau of a perturbed thermodynamical system has recently been derived, \tau \geq \hbar/\pi T, where TT is the system's temperature. We demonstrate analytically that black holes saturate this bound in the extremal limit and for large values of the azimuthal number m of the perturbation field.

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@article{arxiv.0705.2306,
  title  = {Near-Extreme Black Holes and the Universal Relaxation Bound},
  author = {Shahar Hod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.2306},
  year   = {2008}
}

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2 Pages. Submitted to PRD on 5/12/2007