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The Marolf-Ori singularity inside fast spinning black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-05-08 v1

Abstract

The effective shock wave singularity at the outgoing leg of the inner horizon of a linearly perturbed fast spinning black hole is studied numerically for either scalar field, or vacuum, gravitational perturbations. We demonstrate the occurrence of the Marolf-Ori singularity, including changes of order unity in the scalar field ϕ\phi for the scalar field model, and in the Weyl scalars ψ0\psi_0 and ψ4\psi_4 (rescaled appropriately by the horizon function Δ\Delta) and the Kretschmann curvature scalar KK for the vacuum, gravitational perturbations model for both null and timelike geodesic observers. We quantify the shock sharpening effect and show that in all cases its rate agrees with expectations.

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@article{arxiv.1901.03413,
  title  = {The Marolf-Ori singularity inside fast spinning black holes},
  author = {Lior M. Burko and Gaurav Khanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03413},
  year   = {2019}
}
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