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On the stability of black hole event horizons

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

In this work we study a {\it gedanken} experiment constructed in order to test the cosmic censorship hypothesis and the second law of black hole thermo-dynamics. Matter with a negative gravitating energy is imagined added to a near extremal U(1)U(1)-charged static black hole in Einstein-Maxwell theory. The dynamics of a similar process is studied and the thermo-dynamical properties of the resulting black hole structure is discussed. A new mechanism which stabilizes black hole event horizons is shown to operate in such processes.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9408020,
  title  = {On the stability of black hole event horizons},
  author = {Bjorn Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9408020},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16, grammatical errors corrected and two references added