Black Hole and Equipotential Photon Surface Uniqueness in 4-dimensional Asymptotically Flat Electrostatic Electro-Vacuum Spacetimes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-08-06 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We study 4-dimensional asymptotically flat electrostatic electro-vacuum spacetimes with a connected black hole, photon sphere, or equipotential photon surface inner boundary. Our analysis, inspired by the potential theory approach by Agostiniani-Mazzieri, allows to give self-contained proofs of known uniqueness theorems of the sub-extremal, extremal and super-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetimes. We also obtain new results for connected photon spheres and for connected photon surfaces in the extremal case. Finally, we provide, up to a restriction on the range of their radii, the uniqueness result for connected (both non-degenerate and degenerate) photon surfaces in the super-extremal case, not yet treated in the literature.
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@article{arxiv.2401.05253,
title = {Black Hole and Equipotential Photon Surface Uniqueness in 4-dimensional Asymptotically Flat Electrostatic Electro-Vacuum Spacetimes},
author = {Stefano Borghini and Carla Cederbaum and Albachiara Cogo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05253},
year = {2025}
}
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63 pages