Published November 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Extreme throat initial data set and horizon area-angular momentum inequality for axisymmetric black holes

Creators

  • 1. Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia y Fisica, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Instituto de Fisica Enrique Gaviola, IFEG, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria (5000) Cordoba, Argentina and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Muehlenberg 1 D-14476 Potsdam (Germany)

Description

We present a formula that relates the variations of the area of extreme throat initial data with the variation of an appropriate defined mass functional. From this expression we deduce that the first variation, with fixed angular momentum, of the area is zero and the second variation is positive definite evaluated at the extreme Kerr throat initial data. This indicates that the area of the extreme Kerr throat initial data is a minimum among this class of data. And hence the area of generic throat initial data is bounded from below by the angular momentum. Also, this result strongly suggests that the inequality between area and angular momentum holds for generic asymptotically flat axially symmetric black holes. As an application, we prove this inequality in the nontrivial family of spinning Bowen-York initial data.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 104010-104010.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42101566
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; AXIAL SYMMETRY; BLACK HOLES; KERR FIELD; MASS
Descriptors DEC
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; SYMMETRY

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