Static and infalling quasilocal energy of charged and naked black holes

I. S. Booth and R. B. Mann
Phys. Rev. D 60, 124009 – Published 22 November 1999
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Abstract

We extend the quasilocal formalism of Brown and York to include electromagnetic and dilaton fields and also allow for spatial boundaries that are not orthogonal to the foliation of the spacetime. The extension allows us to study the quasilocal energy measured by observers who are moving around in spacetime. We show that the quasilocal energy transforms with respect to boosts by Lorentz-type transformation laws. The resulting formalism can be used to study spacetimes containing electric or magnetic charge but not both, a restriction inherent in the formalism. The gauge dependence of the quasilocal energy is discussed. We use the thin-shell formalism of Israel to reinterpret the quasilocal energy from an operational point of view and examine the implications for the recently proposed AdS-CFT inspired intrinsic reference terms. The distribution of energy around Reissner-Nordström and naked black holes is investigated as measured by both static and infalling observers. We see that this proposed distribution matches a Newtonian intuition in the appropriate limit. Finally, the study of naked black holes reveals an alternate characterization of this class of spacetimes in terms of the quasilocal energies.

  • Received 23 July 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.124009

©1999 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

I. S. Booth* and R. B. Mann

  • Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

  • *Email address: ivan@avatar.uwaterloo.ca
  • Email address: mann@avatar.uwaterloo.ca

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Vol. 60, Iss. 12 — 15 December 1999

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