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arxiv: 1406.6798 · v2 · pith:PKQTCIIDnew · submitted 2014-06-26 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

How small can an over-spinning body be in general relativity?

classification 🌀 gr-qc hep-th
keywords bodyover-spinningsingularityangularkerrmomentumnakedcannot
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The angular momentum of the Kerr singularity should not be larger than a threshold value so that it is enclosed by an event horizon: The Kerr singularity with the angular momentum exceeding the threshold value is naked. This fact suggests that if the cosmic censorship exists in our Universe, an over-spinning body without releasing its angular momentum cannot collapse to spacetime singularities. A simple kinematical estimate of two particles approaching each other supports this expectation and suggests the existence of a minimum size of an over-spinning body. But this does not imply that the geometry near the naked singularity cannot appear. By analyzing initial data, i.e., a snapshot of a spinning body, we see that an over-spinning body may produce a geometry close to the Kerr naked singularity around itself at least as a transient configuration.

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