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All static and electrically charged solutions with Einstein base manifold in the arbitrary-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell system with a massless scalar field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-08-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a simple and complete classification of static solutions in the Einstein-Maxwell system with a massless scalar field in arbitrary n(3)n(\ge 3) dimensions. We consider spacetimes which correspond to a warped product M2×Kn2M^2 \times K^{n-2}, where Kn2K^{n-2} is a (n2)(n-2)-dimensional Einstein space. The scalar field is assumed to depend only on the radial coordinate and the electromagnetic field is purely electric. Suitable Ans\"atze enable us to integrate the field equations in a general form and express the solutions in terms of elementary functions. The classification with a non-constant real scalar field consists of nine solutions for n4n\ge 4 and three solutions for n=3n=3. A complete geometric analysis of the solutions is presented and the global mass and electric charge are determined for asymptotically flat configurations. There are two remarkable features for the solutions with n4n\ge 4: (i) Unlike the case with a vanishing electromagnetic field or constant scalar field, asymptotically flat solution is not unique, and (ii) The solutions can asymptotically approach the Bertotti-Robinson spacetime depending on the integrations constants. In accordance with the no-hair theorem, none of the solutions are endowed of a Killing horizon.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03436,
  title  = {All static and electrically charged solutions with Einstein base manifold in the arbitrary-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell system with a massless scalar field},
  author = {Hideki Maeda and Cristian Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03436},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

38 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. Some typos fixed. References added

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