Tuesday, July 24, 2012

1207.5415 (David Kastor et al.)

The Angular Tension of Black Holes    [PDF]

David Kastor, Jennie Traschen
Angular tension is an ADM charge that contributes a work term to the first law of black hole mechanics when the range of an angular coordinate is varied and leads to a new Smarr formula for stationary black holes. A phase diagram for singly-spinning D=5 black holes shows that angular tension resolves the degeneracies between spherical black holes and (dipole) black rings and captures the physics of the black ring balance condition. Angular tension depends on the behavior of the metric at rotational axes and we speculate on its relation to rod/domain structure characterizations of higher dimensional black holes and black hole uniqueness theorems.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5415

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