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Cosmic no-hair in spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-09-05 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We analyze in detail the geometry and dynamics of the cosmological region arising in spherically symmetric black hole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field system with a positive cosmological constant. More precisely, we solve, for such a system, a characteristic initial value problem with data emulating a dynamic cosmological horizon. Our assumptions are fairly weak, in that we only assume that the data approaches that of a subextremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter black hole, without imposing any rate of decay. We then show that the radius (of symmetry) blows up along any null ray parallel to the cosmological horizon ("near" i+i^+), in such a way that r=+r=+\infty is, in an appropriate sense, a spacelike hypersurface. We also prove a version of the Cosmic No-Hair Conjecture by showing that in the past of any causal curve reaching infinity both the metric and the Riemann curvature tensor asymptote those of a de Sitter spacetime. Finally, we discuss conditions under which all the previous results can be globalized.

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@article{arxiv.1801.06549,
  title  = {Cosmic no-hair in spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes},
  author = {João L. Costa and José Natário and Pedro Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.06549},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

32 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor corrections; v3: a few corrections added to match the final published version