Klein-Gordon equation and rotating black holes
- 15 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 22 (10) , 2323-2326
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.22.2323
Abstract
The Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field of mass is analyzed in the geometry of a rotating black hole. It is shown that in the limit , i.e., particle Compton wavelength much larger than the size of the black hole, the scalar field is unstable with an -folding time of .
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