Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-01-25
Mod.Phys.Lett. A20 (2005) 1923-1932
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
10 pages, no figure, LaTeX; v2: 12 pages, clarifying comments and an Appendix are added, version to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett.
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732305016919
Motivated by the recent interest in quantization of black hole area spectrum, we consider the area spectrum of Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. Based on the proposal by Bekenstein and others that the black hole area spectrum is discrete and equally spaced, we implement Kunstatter's method to derive the area spectrum for the Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. The real part of the quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black hole used for this computation is of the form $m\Omega$ where $\Omega$ is the angular velocity of the black hole horizon. The resulting spectrum is discrete but not as expected uniformly spaced. Thus, we infer that the function describing the real part of quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black hole is not the correct one. This conclusion is in agreement with the numerical results for the highly damped quasinormal modes of Kerr black hole recently presented by Berti, Cardoso and Yoshida. On the contrary, extremal Kerr black hole is shown to have a discrete area spectrum which in addition is evenly spaced. The area spacing derived in our analysis for the extremal Kerr black hole area spectrum is not proportional to $\ln 3$. Therefore, it does not give support to Hod's statement that the area spectrum $A_{n}=(4l^{2}_{p}ln 3)n$ should be valid for a generic Kerr-Newman black hole.
Setare Mohammad R.
Vagenas Elias C.
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