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The area-angular momentum-charge inequality for black holes with positive cosmological constant

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We establish the conjectured area-angular momentum-charge inequality for stable apparent horizons in the presence of a positive cosmological constant, and show that it is saturated precisely for extreme Kerr-Newman-de Sitter horizons. As with previous inequalities of this type, the proof is reduced to minimizing an 'area functional' related to a harmonic map energy; in this case maps are from the 2-sphere to the complex hyperbolic plane. The proof here is simplified compared to previous results for less embellished inequalities, due to the observation that the functional is convex along geodesic deformations in the target.

Original languageEnglish
Article number125017
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume34
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - May 26 2017

Keywords

  • area inequality
  • black hole
  • cosmological constant

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