Geodesics with negative energy in the ergosphere of rotating black holes

2013/04/30 by A. A. Grib, Yu. V. Pavlov, V. D. Vertogradov · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732314501107

published as Modern Physics Letters A 29 (2014) 1450110 · 9 pages, no figures, published version

arxiv created 2014/11/03 · arxiv updated 2014/11/05

Abstract

It is shown that the geodesics with negative energy for rotating black holes cannot originate or terminate inside the ergosphere. Their length is always finite and this leads to conclusion that they must originate and terminate inside the gravitational radius of the ergosphere.

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