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Sorce and Wald analyzed thought experiments in which matter carrying charge or angular momentum enters a Kerr–Newman black hole. Their perturbative analysis incorporates second-order effects that can be missed by a first-order test-body treatment.
Scientific scope
Sorce and Wald analyzed thought experiments in which matter carrying charge or angular momentum enters a Kerr–Newman black hole. Their perturbative analysis incorporates second-order effects that can be missed by a first-order test-body treatment. The conclusions require the paper’s assumptions on the matter, energy condition and settling of perturbations, and concern a particular four-dimensional setting and perturbative regime. They are not a general proof of cosmic censorship or an empirical observation.
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The linked original works support the scoped statement and contribution attribution. WRS has not independently replayed experiments or reconstructed a full mathematical proof. The conclusions require the paper’s assumptions on the matter, energy condition and settling of perturbations, and concern a particular four-dimensional setting and perturbative regime. They are not a general proof of cosmic censorship or an empirical observation.
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- Gedanken Experiments to Destroy a Black Hole II: Kerr-Newman Black Holes Cannot be Over-Charged or Over-Spun (arXiv 1707.05862v3)
- Gedanken Experiments to Destroy a Black Hole II
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