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Analytical Expressions for the Hawking Mass in slowly rotating Kerr and Kerr-Newman Space-times

<p>Penrose's inequality which relates the total mass of a space-time containing a black hole with the area of the event horizon, is a yet unproven condition that is required for the cosmic censorship hypothesis. It is believed that the inequality could be proved by using properties of the Hawking mass. This thesis gives analytical expressions for the Hawking mass in slowly rotating Kerr and Kerr-Newman space-times. It is also shown that the expressions are monotonically increasing, a result that does not contradict Penrose's inequality.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:liu-9246
Date January 2007
CreatorsBengtsson, Martin
PublisherLinköping University, Department of Mathematics, Matematiska institutionen
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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