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Phys. Rev. D 57, 5284–5286 (1998)

Can a nonextremal Reissner-Nordström black hole become extremal by assimilating an infalling charged particle and shell?

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Bin Wang1,2,*, Ru-Keng Su2,1,†, P. K. N. Yu3, and E. C. M. Young3
1Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People’s Republic of China
2China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Laboratory), P. O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
3Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Received 4 August 1997; published in the issue dated 15 April 1998

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.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.57.5284
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.5284
PACS:
04.20.Dw, 04.60.Kz, 04.70.Bw

*Email address: binwang@fudan.ac.cn

†Email address: rksu@fudan.ac.cn

 
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