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Self-force as a cosmic censor

Zimmerman, Peter, Vega, Ian, Poisson, Eric et al.

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We examine Hubeny's scenario according to which a near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole can absorb a particle and be driven toward an over-extremal state in which the charge exceeds the mass, signaling the destruction of the black hole.

Our analysis incorporates the particle's electromagnetic self-force and the energy radiated to infinity in the form of electromagnetic waves.
With these essential ingredients, our sampling of the parameter space reveals no instances of an overcharged final state, and we conjecture that the self-force acts as a cosmic censor, preventing the destruction of a near-extremal black hole by the absorption of a charged particle.
We argue, on the basis of the third law of black-hole mechanics, that this conclusion is robust and should apply to attempts to overspin a Kerr black hole.

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B. S. DeWitt and R. W. Brehme, Radiation damping in a gravitational field
1960
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. M. Hobbs, A vierbein formalism for radiation damping
1968
Earlier work this paper cites.
R. Penrose, Gravitational collapse: The role of general relativity
1969
Earlier work this paper cites.
R. M. Wald, Gedanken experiments to destroy a black hole
1974
Earlier work this paper cites.
W. Israel, Third law of black-hole dynamics: A formulation and proof
1986
Earlier work this paper cites.
M. W. Choptuik, Universality and scaling in gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field
1993
Earlier work this paper cites.
R. Gregory and R. Laflamme, Black strings and p-branes are unstable
1993
Earlier work this paper cites.
R. M. Wald, Gravitational collapse and cosmic censorship
1997
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C. O. Lousto and R. H. Price, Head-on collisions of black holes: The particle limit
1997
Earlier work this paper cites.

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V. E. Hubeny, Overcharging a black hole and cosmic censorship
1999
Cited alongside, same era.
S. Hod and T. Piran, Cosmic censorship: The Role of quantum gravity
2000
Cited alongside, same era.
S. Hod, Cosmic censorship, area theorem, and selfenergy of particles
2002
Cited alongside, same era.
L. Barack and A. Ori, Regularization parameters for the self-force in Schwarzschild spacetime: Scalar case
2002
Cited alongside, same era.
S. Detweiler and B. F. Whiting, Self-force via a Green’s function decomposition
2003
Cited alongside, same era.
C. Gundlach and J. M. Martin-Garcia, Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse
Original
2007