Mechanics of rotating isolated horizons

Abhay Ashtekar, Christopher Beetle, and Jerzy Lewandowski
Phys. Rev. D 64, 044016 – Published 27 July 2001
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Abstract

Black hole mechanics was recently extended by replacing the more commonly used event horizons in stationary space-times with isolated horizons in more general space-times (which may admit radiation arbitrarily close to black holes). However, so far the detailed analysis has been restricted to nonrotating black holes (although it incorporated arbitrary distortion, as well as electromagnetic, Yang-Mills, and dilatonic charges). We now fill this gap by first introducing the notion of isolated horizon angular momentum and then extending the first law to the rotating case.

  • Received 8 March 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.044016

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Abhay Ashtekar*

  • Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Physics Department, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
  • Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg, D-14476 Golm, Germany

Christopher Beetle

  • Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Physics Department, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
  • Physics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Jerzy Lewandowski

  • Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland
  • Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg, D-14476 Golm, Germany

  • *Email address: ashtekar@gravity.phys.psu.edu
  • Email address: beetle@physics.utah.edu
  • Email address: jerzy.lewandowski@fuw.edu.pl

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Vol. 64, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2001

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