Force-free magnetospheres, Kerr-AdS black holes and holography

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Xun
dc.contributor.supervisorRitz, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-23T21:32:33Z
dc.date.available2014-12-23T21:32:33Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-12-23
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we study the energy extraction from rotating black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime (Kerr-AdS black holes), via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process. The motivation is the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence which provides a duality between gravitational physics in asymptotically AdS spacetimes and lower dimensional boundary field theories. The BZ process operates via a force-free magnetosphere around black holes and the rotational energy of the black hole is extracted electromagnetically in the form of Poynting flux. The major part of the thesis is devoted to obtaining force-free solutions in the Kerr-AdS background, which generalize traditional BZ solutions in the asymptotically flat Kerr background. Given the solutions, we use the AdS/CFT to infer dual descriptions in terms of the boundary field theory, which hopefully will lead to a better understanding of the energy extraction for rotating black holes.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationXun Wang and Adam Ritz, "Kerr-AdS Black Holes and Force-Free Magnetospheres," Phys.Rev. D89 (2014) 106011, arXiv:1402.1452 [hep-th].en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5811
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectKerr-AdSen_US
dc.subjectblack holesen_US
dc.subjectforce-free magnetosphereen_US
dc.subjectAdS/CFTen_US
dc.subjectholographyen_US
dc.subjectBlandford-Znajek (BZ) processen_US
dc.titleForce-free magnetospheres, Kerr-AdS black holes and holographyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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