Geometric aspects of extremal Kerr black hole entropy

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    Abstract

    Extreme Black Holes is an important theoretical laboratory for exploring the nature of entropy. We suggest that this unusual nature of the extremal limit could explain the entropy of extremal Kerr black holes. The time-independence of the extremal black hole, the zero surface gravity, the zero entropy and the absence of a bifurcate Killing horizon are all related properties that define and reduce to one single unique feature of the extremal Kerr spacetime. We suggest the presence of a true geometric discontinuity as the underlying cause of a vanishing entropy.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)357-363
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Modern Physics
    Volume4
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2013

    Keywords

    • Bifurcate Killing Horizon
    • Extremal Kerr Black Hole
    • Black Hole Entropy

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