Overcharging higher curvature black holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-12-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We examine the problem of overcharging extremal and near-extremal black hole solutions of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in any dimension, generalizing the result in general relativity. We show that as in the case of general relativity, it is not possible to create a naked singularity by overcharging an extremal black hole in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity using a charged test particle. Our result suggests that the validity of the cosmic censorship hypothesis transcends beyond general relativity to well motivated higher curvature gravity.
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@article{arxiv.1906.08016,
title = {Overcharging higher curvature black holes},
author = {Rajes Ghosh and C. Fairoos and Sudipta Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08016},
year = {2019}
}
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