1997/11/11 by Ivan Booth, I. S. N. Booth, Robert B. Mann +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9711038
8 pages, Latex, 4 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the Seventh Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics (Calgary 1997). Revision - 2 figures improved, 2 paragraphs added, 2 acknowledgements added
openalex publication_date 1997/11/11 · arxiv created 1997/12/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we investigate the pair creation of charged and rotating black hole pairs in a background with a positive cosmological constant. Instantons to describe this situation are constructed from the Kerr-Newmann deSitter solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations and the actions of these instantons are calculated in order to estimate pair creation rates and the entropy of the created spacetimes.