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Studies Of The Over-Rotating BMPV Solution

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v1

Abstract

We study unphysical features of the BMPV black hole and how each can be resolved using the enhancon mechanism. We begin by reviewing how the enhancon mechanism resolves a class of repulson singularities which arise in the BMPV geometry when D--branes are wrapped on K3. In the process, we show that the interior of an enhancon shell can be a time machine due to non-vanishing rotation. We link the resolution of the time machine to the recently proposed resolution of the BMPV naked singularity / "over-rotating" geometry through the expansion of strings in the presence of RR flux. We extend the analysis to include a general class of BMPV black hole configurations, showing that any attempt to "over-rotate" a causally sound BMPV black hole will be thwarted by the resolution mechanism. We study how it may be possible to lower the entropy of a black hole due to the non-zero rotation. This process is prevented from occurring through the creation of a family of resolving shells. The second law of thermodynamics is thereby enforced in the rotating geometry - even when there is no risk of creating a naked singularity or closed time-like curves.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0608137,
  title  = {Studies Of The Over-Rotating BMPV Solution},
  author = {L. Dyson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0608137},
  year   = {2010}
}
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