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Overspinning a nearly extreme charged black hole via a quantum tunneling process

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We examine a nearly extreme macroscopic Reissner-Nordstrom black hole in the context of semi-classical gravity. The absorption rate associated with the quantum tunneling process of scalar particles whereby this black hole can acquire enough angular momentum to violate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture is shown to be nonzero.

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@article{arxiv.0706.3198,
  title  = {Overspinning a nearly extreme charged black hole via a quantum tunneling process},
  author = {George E. A. Matsas and André R. R. da Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3198},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Submitted to Physical Review Letters, 4 pages, 3 figures