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The Maxwell invariant plays a fundamental role in the mathematical description of electromagnetic fields in charged spacetimes. In particular, it has recently been proved that spatially regular scalar fields which are non-minimally coupled to the Maxwell electromagnetic invariant can be supported by spinning and charged Kerr-Newman black holes. Motivated by this physically intriguing property of asymptotically flat black holes in composed Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field theories, we present a detailed analytical study of the physical and mathematical properties of the Maxwell electromagnetic invariant \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\textrm{KN}}\left(r,\theta; M,a,Q\right) \) which characterizes the Kerr-Newman black-hole spacetime [here {r, θ} are respectively the radial and polar coordinates of the curved spacetime and {M, J = M a, Q} are respectively the mass, angular momentum, and electric charge parameters of the black hole]. It is proved that, for all Kerr-Newman black-hole spacetimes, the spin and charge dependent minimum value of the Maxwell electromagnetic invariant is attained on the equator of the black-hole surface. Interestingly, we reveal the physically important fact that Kerr-Newman spacetimes are characterized by two critical values of the dimensionless rotation parameter \( \hat{a}\equiv a/{r}_{+} \) [here r+ (M, a, Q) is the black-hole horizon radius], \( {\hat{a}}_{\textrm{crit}}^{-}=\sqrt{3-2\sqrt{2}} \) and \( {\hat{a}}_{\textrm{crit}}^{+}=\sqrt{5-2\sqrt{5}} \), which mark the boundaries between three qualitatively different spatial functional behaviors of the Maxwell electromagnetic invariant: (i) Kerr-Newman black holes in the slow-rotation \( \hat{a}<{\hat{a}}_{\textrm{crit}}^{-} \) regime are characterized by negative definite Maxwell electromagnetic invariants that increase monotonically towards spatial infinity, (ii) for black holes in the intermediate spin regime \( {\hat{a}}_{\textrm{crit}}^{-}\le \hat{a}\le {\hat{a}}_{\textrm{crit}}^{+} \), the positive global maximum of the Kerr-Newman Maxwell electromagnetic invariant is located at the black-hole poles, and (iii) Kerr-Newman black holes in the super-critical regime \( \hat{a}<{\hat{a}}_{\textrm{crit}}^{+} \) are characterized by a non-monotonic spatial behavior of the Maxwell electromagnetic invariant \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\textrm{KN}}\left(r={r}_{+},\theta; M,a,Q\right) \) along the black-hole horizon with a spin and charge dependent global maximum whose polar angular location is characterized by the dimensionless functional relation \( {\hat{a}}^2 \) · (cos2 θ)max = 5 – \( 2\sqrt{5} \).
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This research is supported by the Carmel Science Foundation. I would like to thank Yael Oren, Arbel M. Ongo, Ayelet B. Lata, and Alona B. Tea for helpful discussions.
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Hod, S. Analytic study of the Maxwell electromagnetic invariant in spinning and charged Kerr-Newman black-hole spacetimes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 140 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)140
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