Black holes: a physical route to the Kerr metric

As a consequence of Birkhoff's theorem, the exterior gravitational field of a spherically symmetric star or black hole is always given by the Schwarzschild metric. In contrast, the exterior gravitational field of a rotating (axisymmetric) star differs, in general, from the Kerr metric, which describes a stationary, rotating black hole. In this paper I discuss the possibility of a quasi–stationary transition from rotating equilibrium configurations of normal matter to rotating bla ck holes.     

“Charged” particle’s tunneling from rotating black holes

The behavior of a scalar field theory near the event horizon in a rotating black hole background can be effectively described by a two dimensional field theory in a gauge field background. Based on this fact, we proposal that the quantum tunneling from rotating black hole can be treated as “charged” particle’s tunneling process in its effectively two dimensional metric. Using this viewpoint and considering the corresponding “gauge charge” conservation, we calculate the non-thermal tunneling rate of Kerr black hole and Myers–Perry black hole, and results are consistent with Parikh–Wilczek’s original result for spherically symmetric black holes. Especially for Myers–Perry black hole which has multi-rotation parameters, our calculation fills in the gap existing in the literature applying Parikh–Wilczek’s tunneling method to various types black holes. Our derivation further illuminates the essential role of effective gauge symmetry in Hawking radiation from rotating black holes.     

Spectroscopy of the Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton–Axion black hole

The entropy spectrum of a spherically symmetric black hole was derived via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule in Majhi and Vagenas’s work. Extending this work to charged and rotating black holes, we quantize the horizon area and the entropy of an Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton–Axion black hole via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule and the adiabatic invariance. The result shows the area spectrum and the entropy spectrum are respectively equally spaced and independent on the parameters of the black hole.     

Kerr-Newman黑洞隧穿辐射的新研究

在文章[吴迪等2013中国科学物理学力学天文学43115]中,从有质量粒子的Lagrangian作用量出发,对Kerr转动黑洞中类时的和类光的测地线方程给出了全新的统一推导,结果表明对转动黑洞隧穿辐射的研究不需要局限地采用拖曳系.这项工作完全克服了先前研究中存在的不足,使得Parikh-Wilczek半经典隧穿方法更加完善和自洽.本文将这一工作推广到转动带电黑洞情形,对Kerr-Newman黑洞中有质量带电粒子测地线方程做了新的推导,并对其隧穿辐射重新做了研究.     

Kerr black holes are not fragile

Certain AdS black holes are “fragile”, in the sense that, if they are deformed excessively, they become unstable to a fundamental non-perturbative stringy effect analogous to Schwinger pair-production [of branes]. Near-extremal topologically spherical AdS-Kerr black holes, which are natural candidates for string-theoretic models of the very rapidly rotating black holes that have actually been observed to exist, do represent a very drastic deformation of the AdS-Schwarzschild geometry. One therefore has strong reason to fear that these objects might be “fragile”, which in turn could mean that asymptotically flat rapidly rotating black holes might be fragile in string theory. Here we show that this does not happen: despite the severe deformation implied by near-extremal angular momenta, brane pair-production around topologically spherical AdS-Kerr-Newman black holes is always suppressed.     

Spectroscopy of a canonically quantized horizon

Deviations from Hawking's thermal black hole spectrum, observable for macroscopic black holes, are derived from a model of a quantum horizon in loop quantum gravity. These arise from additional area eigenstates present in quantum surfaces excluded by the classical isolated horizon boundary conditions. The complete spectrum of area unexpectedly exhibits evenly spaced symmetry. This leads to an enhancement of some spectral lines on top of the thermal spectrum. This can imprint characteristic features into the spectra of black hole systems. It most notably gives the signature of quantum gravity observability in radiation from primordial black holes, and makes it possible to test loop quantum gravity with black holes well above Planck scale.     

Black holes under external influence

The work on black holes immersed in external fields is reviewed in both test-field approximation and within exact solutions. In particular we pay attention to the effect of the expulsion of the flux of external fields across charged and rotating black holes which are approaching extremal states. Recently this effect has been shown to occur for black hole solutions in string theory. We also discuss black holes surrounded by rings and disks and rotating black holes accelerated by strings. The content corresponds to the lecture given at ICGC 2000 in Kharagpur. Sections 2–6 are based on the text of the lecture on ‘Electromagnetic fields around black holes and Meissner effect’ given at the 3rd ICRA workshop in Pescara 1999 (to be published with T Ledvinka in Nuovo Cimento).     

Acceleration of particles in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton black holes

It has recently been pointed out that, under certain conditions, the energy of particles accelerated by black holes in the center-of-mass frame can become arbitrarily high. In this paper, we study the collision of two particles in the case of four-dimensional charged nonrotating, extremal charged rotating and near-extremal charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes as well as the naked singularity case in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory. We find that the center-of-mass energy for a pair of colliding particles is unlimited at the horizon of charged nonrotating Kaluza-Klein black holes, extremal charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes and in the naked singularity case.     

Angular Momentum-Free of the Entropy Relations for Rotating Kaluza-Klein Black Holes

Based on a mathematical lemma related to the Vandermonde determinant and two theorems derived from the first law of black hole thermodynamics, we investigate the angular momentum independence of the entropy sum as well as the entropy product of general rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes in higher dimensions. We show that for both non-charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes and non-charged rotating Kaluza-Klein-AdS black holes, the angular momentum of the black holes will not be present in entropy sum relation in dimensions d≥4, while the independence of angular momentum of the entropy product holds provided that the black holes possess at least one zero rotation parameter a _j = 0 in higher dimensions d≥5, which means that the cosmological constant does not affect the angular momentum-free property of entropy sum and entropy product under the circumstances that charge δ=0. For the reason that the entropy relations of charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes as well as the non-charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black holes in asymptotically flat spacetime act the same way, it is found that the charge has no effect in the angular momentum-independence of entropy sum and product in asymptotically flat spactime.     

引力彩虹时空中Kerr黑洞的熵谱和面积谱

利用黑洞的绝热不变性,研究了引力彩虹时空中Kerr黑洞的熵谱和面积谱.首先,在引力彩虹时空背景下,计算了Kerr黑洞的绝热不变作用量,并将其与玻尔-索末菲量子化条件相结合,给出了黑洞的熵谱.得到的熵谱没有引力彩虹时空本身具有的粒子能量依赖性,且是与经典Kerr黑洞中原始贝肯斯坦熵谱相同的等间距熵谱.然后,根据黑洞热力学第一定律和黑洞熵谱,给出了与原始贝肯斯坦谱不同的面积谱.该面积谱是非等间距的,而且有对黑洞面积的依赖性,但不依赖于探测粒子的能量.面积谱表明,随着黑洞面积的减少,面积间隔逐步变小;当黑洞达到普朗克尺度时,面积量子可降为零.这表示黑洞面积不再减少,黑洞出现辐射剩余.而在忽略色散关系的修正效应或在大黑洞极限下,面积谱的修正项可以忽略,引力彩虹Kerr黑洞面积谱可以回归到原始贝肯斯坦谱.此外,对引力彩虹时空Kerr黑洞的熵进行了讨论,得到了带有面积倒数修正项的黑洞熵,分析了黑洞熵的量子修正与面积谱量子修正的一致性.     

Quantum corrections to the entropy of charged rotating black holes

Hawking radiation from a black hole can be viewed as quantum tunneling of particles through the event horizon. Using this approach we provide a general framework for studying corrections to the entropy of black holes beyond semiclassical approximations. Applying the properties of exact differentials for three variables to the first law thermodynamics, we study charged rotating black holes and explicitly work out the corrections to entropy and horizon area for the Kerr–Newman and charged rotating BTZ black holes. It is shown that the results for other geometries like the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström and anti-de Sitter–Schwarzschild spacetimes follow easily.     

Leading-order corrections to charged rotating AdS black holes thermodynamics

In this paper, we consider a charged rotating AdS black holes in four dimensions and study the effects of leading-order thermal corrections on the thermodynamics of such system explicitly. The first-order corrected thermodynamical quantities also satisfy the first-law of thermodynamics of the black holes. The holographic duality between the charged rotating AdS black holes and Van der Waals fluid is also emphasized through the \(P-v\) diagram. Finally, we study the effects of the leading-order thermal corrections on the stability of the charged rotating black holes.     

Particle acceleration in Horava–Lifshitz black holes

In this paper we calculate the center-of-mass energy of two colliding test particles near the rotating and non-rotating Horava–Lifshitz black hole. For the case of a slowly rotating KS solution of Horava–Lifshitz black hole we compare our results with the case of Kerr black holes. We confirm the limited value of the center-of-mass energy for static black holes and unlimited value of the center-of-mass energy for rotating black holes. Numerically, we discuss temperature dependence of the center-of-mass energy on the black hole horizon. We obtain the critical angular momentum of particles. In this limit the center-of-mass energy of two colliding particles in the neighborhood of the rotating Horava–Lifshitz black hole could be arbitrarily high. We found appropriate conditions where the critical angular momentum could have an orbit outside the horizon. Finally, we obtain the center-of-mass energy corresponding to this circle orbit.     

Area spectra of extreme Kerr and nearly extreme Kerr–Newmann black holes from quasinormal modes

The area spectra of extreme Kerr and nearly extreme Kerr–Newmann black holes are investigated from quasinormal modes via Maggiore’s physical interpretation of quasinormal modes. Using the first law of black hole thermodynamics and the action variable quantization, we arrive at consistent equally spaced area and entropy spectra. Results show that the spectra are irrelevant to the parameters of the black holes and the perturbation fields, which fully agree with Bekensteins original conjecture. In the calculations, we have defined the corresponding Hawking temperatures of the black holes following the suggestion of Mäkelä et al. to avoid the zero temperature and to guarantee the (nearly-) extreme black holes quantizable.     

Spectroscopy of rotating linear dilaton black holes from boxed quasinormal modes

Numerical studies of the coupled Einstein‐Klein‐Gordon system have recently revealed that confined scalar fields generically collapse to form caged black holes. In the light of this finding, we analytically study the characteristic resonance spectra of the confined scalar fields in rotating linear dilaton black hole geometry. Confining mirrors (cage) are assumed to be placed in the near‐horizon region of a caged rotating linear dilaton black hole ( is the radius of the cage and r₂ represents the event horizon). The radial part of the Klein‐Gordon equation is written as a Schrödinger‐like wave equation, which reduces to a Bessel differential equation around the event horizon. Using analytical tools and proper boundary conditions, we obtain the boxed‐quasinormal mode frequencies of the caged rotating linear dilaton black hole. Finally, we employ Maggiore's method, which evaluates the transition frequency in the adiabatic invariant quantity from the highly damped quasinormal modes, in order to investigate the entropy/area spectra of the rotating linear dilaton black hole.     

Entropy correction of BTZ black holes in a tunneling framework

In this paper, using the Parikh-Wilczek tunneling framework, we first calculate the emission rates of non-rotating BTZ black holes and rotating BTZ black holes to second order accuracy. Then, by assuming that the emission process satisfies an underlying unitary theory, we obtain the corrected entropy of the BTZ black holes. A log term emerges naturally in the expression of the corrected entropy. A discussion about the inverse area term is also presented.     

Tunneling Radiation of Massive Vector Bosons from Dilaton Black Holes

It is well known that Hawking radiation can be treated as a quantum tunneling process of particles from the event horizon of black hole. In this paper, we attempt to apply the massive vector bosons tunneling method to study the Hawking radiation from the non-rotating and rotating dilaton black holes. Starting with the Proca field equation that govern the dynamics of massive vector bosons, we derive the tunneling probabilities and radiation spectrums of the emitted vector bosons from the static spherical symmetric dilatonic black hole, the rotating Kaluza-Klein black hole, and the rotating Kerr-Sen black hole. Comparing the results with the blackbody spectrum, we satisfactorily reproduce the Hawking temperatures of these dilaton black holes, which are consistent with the previous results in the literature.     

Black holes in general relativity

It is assumed that the singularities which occur in gravitational collapse are not visible from outside but are hidden behind an event horizon. This means that one can still predict the future outside the event horizon. A black hole on a spacelike surface is defined to be a connected component of the region of the surface bounded by the event horizon. As time increase, black holes may merge together but can never bifurcate. A black hole would be expected to settle down to a stationary state. It is shown that a stationary black hole must have topologically spherical boundary and must be axisymmetric if it is rotating. These results together with those of Israel and Carter go most of the way towards establishing the conjecture that any stationary black hole is a Kerr solution. Using this conjecture and the result that the surface area of black holes can never decrease, one can place certain limits on the amount of energy that can be extracted from black holes.