Stationary Black Holes: Uniqueness and Beyond

The spectrum of known black-hole solutions to the stationary Einstein equations has been steadily increasing, sometimes in unexpected ways. In particular, it has turned out that not all black-hole-equilibrium configurations are characterized by their mass, angular momentum and global charges. Moreov...

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Published inLiving reviews in relativity Vol. 15; no. 1; p. 7
Main Authors Chruściel, Piotr T., Costa, João Lopes, Heusler, Markus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2012
Springer Nature B.V
SpringerOpen
Subjects
Angular momentum
Astrophysics and Astroparticles
black holes
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Cosmology
Einstein equations
Gravitation
Physics
Relativity Theory
Review
Review Article
self-gravitating classical fields
Uniqueness theorems
Black Ring
Event Horizon
Killing Vector Field
Killing Vector
Black Hole
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Summary:The spectrum of known black-hole solutions to the stationary Einstein equations has been steadily increasing, sometimes in unexpected ways. In particular, it has turned out that not all black-hole-equilibrium configurations are characterized by their mass, angular momentum and global charges. Moreover, the high degree of symmetry displayed by vacuum and electro-vacuum black-hole spacetimes ceases to exist in self-gravitating non-linear field theories. This text aims to review some developments in the subject and to discuss them in light of the uniqueness theorem for the Einstein-Maxwell system.
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ISSN:2367-3613
1433-8351
1433-8351
DOI:10.12942/lrr-2012-7