On the brown-york quasilocal energy, gravitational charge, and black hole event horizons

Abstract

We prove the recently proposed identity for certain black hole spacetimes that relates the difference of the Brown-York quasilocal energy and the Komar charge at the event horizon of the hole to the total energy of the spacetime. We prove this identity for the Kerr-Newman family of black hole spacetimes and for non-static (cosmological) spherically symmetric shear-free perfect fluid solutions of general relativity that contain black hole event horizons. We explicitly demonstrate its validity by applying it to several asymptotically fiat as well as non-fiat black hole solutions, including the case of a black hole with a global monopole charge.