Regular black holes and topology change
- 15 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 55 (12) , 7615-7617
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.55.7615
Abstract
The conditions are clarified under which regular (i.e., singularity-free) black holes can exist. It is shown that in a large class of spacetimes that satisfy the weak energy condition the existence of a regular black hole requires topology change.Keywords
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