Evidence for the adiabatic invariance of the black hole horizon area

1998/05/31 by Avi Mayo, Avraham E. Mayo · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.58.104007

published as Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 104007 · 15 pages, REVtex, typos and references corrected, approved for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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Abstract

Some examples in support of the conjecture that the horizon area of a near equilibrium black hole is an adiabatic invariant are described. These clarify somewhat the conditions under which the conjecture would be true.

Citations

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