Ask a Question

Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?

Can extreme black holes have (long) Abelian Higgs hair?

Can extreme black holes have (long) Abelian Higgs hair?

It has been argued that a black hole horizon can support the long range fields of a Nielsen-Olesen string, and that one can think of such a vortex as black hole ``hair''. In this paper, we examine the properties of an Abelian Higgs vortex in the presence of a charged …