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Phys. Rev. D 66, 064026 (2002) [8 pages]

Isoperimetric inequality for higher-dimensional black holes

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Daisuke Ida
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan

Ken-ichi Nakao
Department of Physics, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan

Received 3 June 2002; published 30 September 2002

The initial data sets for the five-dimensional Einstein equation have been examined. The system is designed such that the black hole (S3) or the black ring (S2×S1) can be found. We have found that the typical length of the horizon can become arbitrarily large but the area of characteristic closed two-dimensional submanifold of the horizon is bounded above by the typical mass scale. We conjecture that the isoperimetric inequality for black holes in n-dimensional space is given by Vn-2GM, where Vn-2 denotes the volume of a typical closed (n-2)-section of the horizon and M is typical mass scale, rather than C≲(GM)1/(n-2) in terms of the hoop length C, which holds only when n=3.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.064026
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.064026
PACS:
04.50.+h, 04.70.Bw