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Existence and absence of Killing horizons in static solutions with symmetries

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-06-24 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Without specifying a matter field nor imposing energy conditions, we study Killing horizons in n(3)n(\ge 3)-dimensional static solutions in general relativity with an (n2)(n-2)-dimensional Einstein base manifold. Assuming linear relations prχrρp_{\rm r}\simeq\chi_{\rm r} \rho and p2χtρp_2\simeq\chi_{\rm t} \rho near a Killing horizon between the energy density ρ\rho, radial pressure prp_{\rm r}, and tangential pressure p2p_2 of the matter field, we prove that any non-vacuum solution satisfying χr<1/3\chi_{\rm r}<-1/3 (χr1\chi_{\rm r}\ne -1) or χr>0\chi_{\rm r}>0 does not admit a horizon as it becomes a curvature singularity. For χr=1\chi_{\rm r}=-1 and χr[1/3,0)\chi_{\rm r}\in[-1/3,0), non-vacuum solutions admit Killing horizons, on which there exists a matter field only for χr=1\chi_{\rm r}=-1 and 1/3-1/3, which are of the Hawking-Ellis type~I and type~II, respectively. Differentiability of the metric on the horizon depends on the value of χr\chi_{\rm r}, and non-analytic extensions beyond the horizon are allowed for χr[1/3,0)\chi_{\rm r}\in[-1/3,0). In particular, solutions can be attached to the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini-type vacuum solution at the Killing horizon in at least a C1,1C^{1,1} regular manner without a lightlike thin shell. We generalize some of those results in Lovelock gravity with a maximally symmetric base manifold.

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@article{arxiv.2402.11012,
  title  = {Existence and absence of Killing horizons in static solutions with symmetries},
  author = {Hideki Maeda and Cristian Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11012},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

51 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; v3, this arXiv version has Appendix D based on the addendum (2025 Class. Quantum Grav. 42, 129401) to the published version to clarify that even two solutions with different values of $\chi_{\rm r}$ and $\chi_{\rm t}$ can be attached regularly at the horizon