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Strong cosmic censorship in the BTZ black hole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recently it has been shown that quantum fields can be regular on the inner, Cauchy horizon of a rotating BTZ black hole, which appears to indicate a failure of strong cosmic censorship. We argue that, instead, what these results imply is that the inner horizon remains non-singular when leading-order backreaction of the quantum fields is computed, but, after next-order backreaction is accounted for, it will become singular. Then, strong cosmic censorship will be enforced in the BTZ black hole. We support our claims using a four-dimensional holographic dual of the system, which connects the instability of the inner horizon of the BTZ black hole to that of Kerr-type black holes.

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@article{arxiv.2002.02083,
  title  = {Strong cosmic censorship in the BTZ black hole},
  author = {Roberto Emparan and Marija Tomašević},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02083},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages. v2: minor changes. Matches published version