Cosmological production of charged black hole pairs

Apr, 1995
29 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 52 (1995) 2254-2265
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Report number:
  • DAMTP-R-95-9

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate the pair creation of charged black holes in a background with a positive cosmological constant. We consider CC metrics with a cosmological constant, and show that the conical singularities in the metric only disappear when it reduces to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om de Sitter metric. We construct an instanton describing the pair production of extreme black holes and an instanton describing the pair production of non-extreme black holes from the Reissner-Nordstr\"om de Sitter metric, and calculate their actions. There are a number of striking similarities between these instantons and the Ernst instantons, which describe pair production in a background electromagnetic field. We also observe that the type I instanton in the ordinary CC metric with zero cosmological constant is actually the Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution.
  • black hole: pair production
  • pair production: black hole
  • cosmological constant
  • space-time: singularity
  • field equations: instanton
  • field theory: de Sitter
  • entropy
  • field theory: action
  • numerical calculations