Note on the absence of massive fermion superradiance from a Kerr black hole

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dc.contributor.author	Iyer, B.R.	-
dc.contributor.author	Kumar, Arvind	-
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-24T04:29:38Z	-
dc.date.available	2012-05-24T04:29:38Z	-
dc.date.issued	1978-02-03	-
dc.identifier.citation	Physical Review D, 1978, Vol.8, p4799	en
dc.identifier.issn	1550-7998	-
dc.identifier.issn	1550-2368 (0nline)	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/4532	-
dc.description	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)	en
dc.description.abstract	We point out the procedural fallacy in a recent proof by Martellini and Treves of the theorem that a massive fermion field in the Kerr metric does not super-radiate. The fallacy lies in arbitrarily switching from the spinor representation to Unruh's representation without any justification. This defect is remedied, and the correct proof of the theorem is exhibited. Further, an explicit demonstration generalizes the connection between this theorem and the positive definiteness of the norm shown by Unruh for the massless case.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	American Physical Society	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.18.4799	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978PhRvD..18.4799I	en
dc.rights	1978, American Physical Society	en
dc.title	Note on the absence of massive fermion superradiance from a Kerr black hole	en
dc.type	Article	en
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