Physics Letters B 751 (2015) 177–183
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Extremal Kerr–Newman black holes with extremely short
charged
scalar hair
Shahar Hod
a,b,∗
a
The Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer 40250, Israel
b
The Hadassah Institute, Jerusalem 91010, Israel
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
7 September 2015
Received
in revised form 13 October 2015
Accepted
14 October 2015
Available
online 20 October 2015
Editor:
M. Cveti
ˇ
c
The recently proved ‘no short hair’ theorem asserts that, if a spherically-symmetric static black hole
has hair, then this hair (the external fields) must extend beyond the null circular geodesic (the
“photonsphere”) of the corresponding black-hole spacetime: r
field
> r
null
. In this paper we provide
compelling evidence that the bound can be violated by non-spherically symmetric hairy black-hole
configurations. To that end, we analytically explore the physical properties of cloudy Kerr–Newman
black-hole spacetimes – charged rotating black holes which support linearized stationary charged scalar
configurations in their exterior regions. In particular, for given parameters {M, Q , J } of the central
black hole, we find the dimensionless ratio q/μ of the field parameters which minimizes the effective
lengths (radii) of the exterior stationary charged scalar configurations (here {M, Q , J} are respectively
the mass, charge, and angular momentum of the black hole, and {μ, q} are respectively the mass and
charge coupling constant of the linearized scalar field). This allows us to prove explicitly that (non-
spherically
symmetric non-static) composed Kerr–Newman-charged-scalar-field configurations can violate
the no-short-hair lower bound. In particular, it is shown that extremely compact stationary charged scalar
‘clouds’, made of linearized charged massive scalar fields with the property r
field
→r
H
, can be supported
in the exterior spacetime regions of extremal Kerr–Newman black holes (here r
field
is the peak location of
the stationary scalar configuration and r
H
is the black-hole horizon radius). Furthermore, we prove that
these remarkably compact stationary field configurations exist in the entire range s ≡ J /M
2
∈ (0, 1) of the
dimensionless black-hole angular momentum. In particular, in the large-mass limit they are characterized
by the simple dimensionless ratio q/μ = (1 −2s
2
)/(1 −s
2
).
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1. Introduction
Wheeler’s famous conjecture that “black holes have no hair”
[1,2] predicts a simple and universal fate for all dynamical black-
hole
spacetimes [3]: the matter fields outside the horizon are ex-
pected
to be swallowed by the black hole or to be scattered away
to infinity, thus leaving behind a stationary “bald” Kerr–Newman
black hole [4–6]. The no-hair conjecture therefore suggests that,
within the framework of classical general relativity, black holes are
fundamental objects which possess only three conserved physical
parameters: mass M, charge Q , and angular momentum J .
The
no-hair conjecture predicts, in particular, that asymptoti-
cally
flat black holes cannot support static matter configurations in
their exterior regions. Early studies of the coupled Einstein-matter
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Correspondence to: The Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer 40250, Israel.
E-mail
address: shaharhod@gmail.com.
equations have indeed ruled out the existence of regular black-
hole
solutions with static scalar hair [7], static spinor hair [8], and
static massive vector hair [9]. These early no-hair theorems have
therefore supported the simple physical picture suggested by the
no-hair conjecture [1,2].
However,
the somewhat surprising discovery of regular black-
hole
solutions [10] to the Einstein–Yang–Mills equations [11] has
revealed that coupled Einstein-matter systems may exhibit a more
complex behavior. The numerical discovery of these ‘colored’ black
holes [11], which provided the first genuine counterexample to the
no-hair conjecture, has motivated many researches to search for
other types of non-trivial hairy black-hole configurations. In fact,
it is by now well established that black holes can support vari-
ous
types of non-linear matter fields (that is, matter fields with
self-interaction terms) in their exterior regions [11–22].
The
hairy black-hole solutions discovered numerically in
[11–22] provide
compelling evidence that the no-hair conjecture,
in its original formulation [1,2], may be violated [23]. Accepting
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