Published March 15, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Can Martinez's conjecture be extended to string theory?

  • 1. Department of Applied Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083 (China)
  • 2. Department of Astronomy and Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 (China)
  • 3. Institute of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081 (China)

Description

The universality of Martinez's conjecture, which states that the quasilocal energy of a black hole at the outer horizon reduces to twice its irreducible mass, or equivalently to √(A/4π) (A is the area of the black hole), is investigated by calculating Brown-York quasilocal energies for stationary black holes in heterotic string theory, e.g., for the stationary Kaluza-Klein black hole, the rotating Cvetic-Youm black hole, the stationary axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion black hole, and the Kerr-Sen black hole. It is shown that Martinez's conjecture can be extended from general relativity to heterotic string theory since the quasilocal energies of these stationary black holes tend to their Arnowitt-Deser-Misner masses at spatial infinity, and reduce to √(A/4π) at the event horizons

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 064001-064001.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society