Cosmic censorship in overcharging a Reissner-Nordström black hole via charged particle absorption

Soichiro Isoyama, Norichika Sago, and Takahiro Tanaka
Phys. Rev. D 84, 124024 – Published 12 December 2011

Abstract

There is a claim that a static-charged black hole (Reissner-Nordström black hole) can be overcharged by absorbing a charged test particle. If it is true, it might give a counter example to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which states that spacetime singularities are never observed by a distant observer. However, so far the proposed process has only been analyzed within a test particle approximation. Here, we claim that the backreaction effects of a charged particle cannot be neglected when judging whether the suggested process is really a counter example to the cosmic censorship conjecture. Furthermore, we argue that all the backreaction effects can be properly taken into account when we consider the trajectory of a particle on the border between the plunge and bounce orbits. In such marginal cases, we find that the Reissner-Nordström black hole can never be overcharged via the absorption of a charged particle. Since all the plunge orbits are expected to have a higher energy than the marginal orbit, we conclude that there is no supporting evidence that indicates the violation of the cosmic censorship in the proposed overcharging process.

  • Received 9 September 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.124024

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Soichiro Isoyama*, Norichika Sago, and Takahiro Tanaka

  • Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

  • *isoyama_at_yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  • sago_at_yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  • tanaka_at_yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Vol. 84, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2011

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