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Phys. Rev. D 55, 7615–7617 (1997)

Regular black holes and topology change

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Arvind Borde
Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155
Department of Mathematics, Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, New York 11968

Received 9 August 1996; published in the issue dated 15 June 1997

The conditions are clarified under which regular (i.e., singularity-free) black holes can exist. It is shown that in a large class of spacetimes that satisfy the weak energy condition the existence of a regular black hole requires topology change.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7615
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7615
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 02.40.Pc, 04.20.Cv, 04.20.Dw
 
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