Phys. Rev. D 66, 024016 (2002) [4 pages]Cosmic censorship, area theorem, and self-energy of particlesReceived 14 April 2002; published 9 July 2002 The (zeroth-order) energy of a particle in the background of a black hole is given by Carter’s integrals. However, exact calculations of a particle’s self-energy (first-order corrections) are still beyond our present reach in many situations. In this paper we use Hawking’s area theorem in order to derive bounds on the self-energy of a particle in the vicinity of a black hole. Furthermore, we show that self-energy corrections must be taken into account in order to guarantee the validity of Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjecture. © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024016
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024016
PACS:
04.20.Dw, 04.20.Cv, 04.70.Bw
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