The Kerr black hole as a quantum rotator

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/11/321MaRDI QIDQ4407017zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gilad Gour, A. J. M. Medved

Publication date 19 January 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0211089

zbMATH Keywords

angular momentum quantizationhorizon area quantizationKerr black holereduced phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: It has been proposed by Bekenstein and others that the horizon area of a black hole conforms, upon quantization, to a discrete and uniformly spaced spectrum. In this paper, we consider the area spectrum for the highly non-trivial case of a rotating (Kerr) black hole solution. Following a prior work by Barvinsky, Das and Kunstatter, we are able to express the area spectrum in terms of an integer-valued quantum number and an angular-momentum operator. Moreover, by using an analogy between the Kerr black hole and a quantum rotator, we are able to quantize the angular-momentum sector. We find the area spectrum to be $A_{n,J_{cl}}=8pihbar(n+J_{cl}+1/2)$, where $n$ and $J_{cl}$ are both integers. The quantum number $J_{cl}$ is related to but distinct from the eigenvalue $j$ of the angular momentum of the black hole. Actually, it represents the ``classical angular momentum and, for $J_{cl}gg1$, $J_{cl}approxj$.

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