Spinning Down a Black Hole With Scalar Fields
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We study the evolution of a Kerr black hole emitting scalar radiation via the Hawking process. We show that the rate at which mass and angular momentum are lost by the black hole leads to a final evolutionary state with nonzero angular momentum, namely .
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9703018,
title = {Spinning Down a Black Hole With Scalar Fields},
author = {Chris M. Chambers and William A. Hiscock and Brett Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9703018},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages (including 3 postscript figures), Revtex, uses epsf.tex, twocolumn.sty and header.sty (included). Submitted to Physical Review Letters