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On Accelerated Black Holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

The static and stationary C-metric are revisited in a generic framework and their interpretations studied in some detail. Specially those with two event horizons, one for the black hole and another for the acceleration. We found that: i) The spacetime of an accelerated static black hole is plagued by either conical singularities or lack of smoothness and compactness of the black hole horizon; ii) By using standard black hole thermodynamics we show that accelerated black holes have higher Hawking temperature than Unruh temperature of the accelerated frame; iii) The usual upper bound on the product of the mass and acceleration parameters <1/sqrt(27) is just a coordinate artifact. The main results are extended to accelerated rotating black holes with no significant changes.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9809089,
  title  = {On Accelerated Black Holes},
  author = {Patricio S. Letelier and Samuel R. Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9809089},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Substantial revision after referee's comments. 21 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. (amsmath and graphicx packages). Accepted to Phys. Rev. D

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