Isolated horizons: Hamiltonian evolution and the first law

Ashtekar, Abhay, Fairhurst, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-1961 and Krishnan, Badri 2000. Isolated horizons: Hamiltonian evolution and the first law. Physical Review D 62 (10) , 104025. 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.104025

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Abstract

A framework was recently introduced to generalize black hole mechanics by replacing stationary event horizons with isolated horizons. That framework is significantly extended. The extension is nontrivial in that not only do the boundary conditions now allow the horizon to be distorted and rotating, but also the subsequent analysis is based on several new ingredients. Specifically, although the overall strategy is closely related to that in the previous work, the dynamical variables, the action principle and the Hamiltonian framework are all quite different. More importantly, in the nonrotating case, the first law is shown to arise as a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a consistent Hamiltonian evolution. Somewhat surprisingly, this consistency condition in turn leads to new predictions even for static black holes. To complement the previous work, the entire discussion is presented in terms of tetrads and associated (real) Lorentz connections.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0556-2821
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/36125

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