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 …