Can a nonextremal Reissner-Nordström black hole become extremal by assimilating an infalling charged particle and shell?

Bin Wang; Ru-Keng Su; P. K. N. Yu; E. C. M. Young

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.57.5284

Can a nonextremal Reissner-Nordström black hole become extremal by assimilating an infalling charged particle and shell?

Bin Wang, Ru-Keng Su, P. K. N. Yu, and E. C. M. Young

Phys. Rev. D 57, 5284 – Published 15 April 1998

Abstract

By using the gedanken experiments suggested by Bekenstein and Rosenzweig, we show that a nonextremal Reissner-Nordström black hole cannot turn into an extremal one by assimilating an infalling charged particle and a charged spherical shell.

Received 4 August 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.57.5284

Authors & Affiliations

Bin Wang^1,2,*, Ru-Keng Su^2,1,†, P. K. N. Yu³, and E. C. M. Young³

¹Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People’s Republic of China
²China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Laboratory), P. O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
³Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

^*Email address: binwang@fudan.ac.cn
^†Email address: rksu@fudan.ac.cn

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