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Singularities in rotating black holes coupled to a massless scalar field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-05-14 v1

Abstract

We employ a late-time expansion to study the interior of rotating black holes coupled to a massless scalar field in asymptotically flat spacetime. We find that decaying fluxes of scalar radiation into the black hole necessitate the existence of a null singularity at the Cauchy horizon and a central spacelike singularity at radius r=0r = 0. In particular, the decaying influxes source a localized cloud of scalar radiation near r=0r=0 whose amplitude grows unboundedly large as advanced time vv \to \infty. The scalar cloud inevitably results in a central spacelike singularity at late times vv, with the curvature near r=0r = 0 diverging like rαvr^{-\alpha v}, where α>0\alpha > 0 is a constant.

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@article{arxiv.1905.04613,
  title  = {Singularities in rotating black holes coupled to a massless scalar field},
  author = {Paul M. Chesler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.04613},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.08323