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Nonmeasurability of the lepton number of a black hole

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Lettere al Nuovo Cimento (1971-1985)

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  1. This statement is also known as the «Israel-Carter conjecture». See, for example,C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne andJ. A. Wheeler:Gravitation (University of Maryland Press, College Park, Md., 1970). Preliminary Edition.

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Work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. GP 30799 X.

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Teitelboim, C. Nonmeasurability of the lepton number of a black hole. Lett. Nuovo Cimento 3, 397–400 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02826050

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