Abelian Higgs hair for black holes
- 15 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 52 (10) , 5729-5742
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.5729
Abstract
We find evidence for the existence of solutions of the Einstein and Abelian Higgs field equations describing a black hole pierced by a Nielsen-Olesen vortex. This situation falls outside the scope of the usual no-hair arguments due to the nontrivial topology of the vortex configuration and the special properties of its energy-momentum tensor. By a combination of numerical and perturbative techniques we conclude that the black hole horizon has no difficulty in supporting the long-range fields of the Nielsen-Olesen string. Moreover, the effect of the vortex can in principle be measured from infinity, thus justifying its characterization as black hole ‘‘hair.’’Keywords
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