Antikick Relation in High-Energy Head-On Collisions of Spinning Black Holes

arXiv:2607.13018 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph, hep-th · Submitted 2026-07-14 · Read on arXiv

Carlos O. Lousto, James Healy, Alessandro Ciarfella, Hiroyuki Nakano

RIT · RIT · RIT · Ryukoku University

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-07-14

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Initial Data — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Apparent Horizon — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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