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Nonthermal nature of extremal Kerr black holes

Tony Rothman

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0006036

Abstract

Liberati, Rothman and Sonego have recently showed that objects collapsing into extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black holes do not behave as thermal objects at any time in their history. In particular, a temperature, and hence thermodynamic entropy, are undefined for them. I demonstrate that the analysis goes through essentially unchanged for Kerr black holes.

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