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Black holes in scalar-tensor gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-03-07 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Hawking has proven that black holes which are stationary as the endpoint of gravitational collapse in Brans--Dicke theory (without a potential) are no different than in general relativity. We extend this proof to the much more general class of scalar-tensor and f(R) gravity theories, without assuming any symmetries apart from stationarity.

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@article{arxiv.1109.6324,
  title  = {Black holes in scalar-tensor gravity},
  author = {Thomas P. Sotiriou and Valerio Faraoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6324},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

v1: 4 pages; v2: typos corrected, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-21T19:12:06.558Z