A nonsingular rotating black hole

The spacetime singularities in classical general relativity are inevitable, which are also predicated by the celebrated singularity theorems. However, it is general belief that singularities do not exist in the nature and they are the limitations of the general relativity. In the absence of a well defined quantum gravity, models of regular black holes have been studied. We employ probability distribution inspired mass function $m(r)$ to replace Kerr black hole mass $M$ to present a nonsingular rotating black hole that is identified asymptotically ($r \gg k$, $k>0$ constant) exactly as the Kerr-Newman black hole, and as the Kerr black hole when $k=0$. The radiating counterpart renders a nonsingular generalization of Carmeli's spacetime as well as Vaidya's spacetime, in the appropriate limits. The exponential correction factor changing the geometry of the classic black hole to remove curvature singularity can be also motivated by the quantum arguments. The regular rotating spacetime can also be understood as a black hole of general relativity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, several changes, accepted in EPJC (as Letter

Rotating black hole and quintessence

We discuss spherically symmetric exact solutions of the Einstein equations for quintessential matter surrounding a black hole, which has an additional parameter ($\omega$) due to the quintessential matter, apart from the mass ($M$). In turn, we employ the Newman$-$Janis complex transformation to this spherical quintessence black hole solution and present a rotating counterpart that is identified, for $\alpha=-e^2 \neq 0$ and $\omega=1/3$, exactly as the Kerr$-$Newman black hole, and as the Kerr black hole when $\alpha=0$. Interestingly, for a given value of parameter $\omega$, there exists a critical rotation parameter ($a=a_{E}$), which corresponds to an extremal black hole with degenerate horizons, while for $a<a_{E}$, it describes a non-extremal black hole with Cauchy and event horizons, and no black hole for $a>a_{E}$. We find that the extremal value $a_E$ is also influenced by the parameter $\omega$ and so is the ergoregion.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication EPJC (Letter

Small Area Shrinkage Estimation

The need for small area estimates is increasingly felt in both the public and private sectors in order to formulate their strategic plans. It is now widely recognized that direct small area survey estimates are highly unreliable owing to large standard errors and coefficients of variation. The reason behind this is that a survey is usually designed to achieve a specified level of accuracy at a higher level of geography than that of small areas. Lack of additional resources makes it almost imperative to use the same data to produce small area estimates. For example, if a survey is designed to estimate per capita income for a state, the same survey data need to be used to produce similar estimates for counties, subcounties and census divisions within that state. Thus, by necessity, small area estimation needs explicit, or at least implicit, use of models to link these areas. Improved small area estimates are found by "borrowing strength" from similar neighboring areas.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS374 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Modelling Two-Roton Bound State Formation in Fractional Quantum Hall System

Composite Fermion approach using extensive and parallalized numerical analysis has recently established a two-roton bound state as the lowest energy long wavelength neutral excitation of FQHE for finite particle (N~30) system. By focussing on the "oriented dipole" character of magneto roton, we model the two roton problem and solve it variationally (analytically) to find a two-roton bound state with binding energy which is in good agreement with the composite fermion numerical results.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX file, 3 figures, Minor changes, Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter

Rotating black hole in Rastall theory

Rotating black hole solutions in theories of modified gravity are important as they offer an arena to test these theories through astrophysical observation. The non-rotating black hole can be hardly tested since the black hole spin is very important in any astrophysical process. We present rotating counterpart of a recently obtained spherically symmetric exact black hole solution surrounded by perfect fluid in the context of Rastall theory, viz, rotating Rastall black hole that generalize the Kerr-Newman black hole solution. In turn, we analyze the specific cases of the Kerr-Newman black holes surrounded by matter like dust and quintessence fields. Interestingly, for a set of parameters and a chosen surrounding field, there exists a critical rotation parameter ($a=a_{E}$), which corresponds to an extremal black hole with degenerate horizons, while for $a<a_{E}$, it describes a non-extremal black hole with Cauchy and event horizons, and no black hole for $a>a_{E}$ with value $a_E$ is also influenced by these parameters. We also discuss the thermodynamical quantities associated with rotating Rastall black hole, and analyze the particle motion with the behavior of effective potential.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figures. Matched with the published versio

Rotating Hayward's regular black hole as particle accelerator

Recently, Ban\~{a}dos, Silk and West (BSW) demonstrated that the extremal Kerr black hole can act as a particle accelerator with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy ($E_{CM}$) when the collision takes place near the horizon. The rotating Hayward's regular black hole, apart from Mass ($M$) and angular momentum ($a$), has a new parameter $g$ ($g>0$ is a constant) that provides a deviation from the Kerr black hole. We demonstrate that for each $g$, with $M=1$, there exist critical $a_{E}$ and $r_{H}^{E}$, which corresponds to a regular extremal black hole with degenerate horizon, and $a_{E}$ decreases and $r_{H}^{E}$ increases with increase in $g$. While $a<a_{E}$ describe a regular non-extremal black hole with outer and inner horizons. We apply BSW process to the rotating Hayward's regular black hole, for different $g$, and demonstrate numerically that $E_{CM}$ diverges in the vicinity of the horizon for the extremal cases, thereby suggesting that a rotating regular black hole can also act as a particle accelerator and thus in turn may provide a suitable framework for Plank-scale physics. For a non-extremal case, there always exist a finite upper bound of $E_{CM}$, which increases with deviation parameter $g$.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, accepted to be published in Journal of High Energy Physic

Spinning Higher Dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills black holes

We construct a Kerr-Newman-like spacetimes starting from higher dimensional (HD) Einstein-Yang-Mills black holes via complex transformations suggested by Newman-Janis. The new metrics are HD generalization of Kerr-Newman spacetimes which has a geometry precisely that of Kerr-Newman in 4D corresponding to Yang-Mills (YM) gauge charge, but the sign of charge term gets flipped in the HD spacetimes. It is interesting to note that gravitational contribution of YM gauge charge, in HD, is indeed opposite (attractive rather than repulsive) that of Maxwell charge. The effect of YM gauge charge on the structure and location of static limit surface and apparent horizon is discussed. We find that static limit surfaces become less prolate with increase in dimensions and are also sensitive to YM gauge charge thereby affecting the shape of ergosphere. We also analyze some thermodynamical properties of these BHs.Comment: Accepted for publication in EPJ

Accretion onto a noncommutative geometry inspired black hole

The spherically symmetric accretion onto a noncommutative (NC) inspired Schwarzschild black hole is treated for a polytropic fluid. The critical accretion rate $\dot{M}$, sonic speed $a_s$ and other flow parameters are generalised for the NC inspired black hole and compared with the results obtained for the standard Schwarzschild black holes. We also derive explicit expressions for gas compression ratios and temperature profiles below the accretion radius and at the event horizon. This analysis is a generalisation of Michel's solution to the NC geometry. Owing to the NC corrected black hole, the accretion flow parameters have also been modified. It turns out that $\dot{M} \approx {M^2}$ is still achievable but $r_s$ seems to be substantially decreased due to NC effects, that in turn does affect the accretion process.Comment: Published in EPJ