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
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