Existence and absence of Killing horizons in static solutions with symmetries
Abstract
Without specifying a matter field nor imposing energy conditions, we study Killing horizons in -dimensional static solutions in general relativity with an -dimensional Einstein base manifold. Assuming linear relations and near a Killing horizon between the energy density , radial pressure , and tangential pressure of the matter field, we prove that any non-vacuum solution satisfying () or does not admit a horizon as it becomes a curvature singularity. For and , non-vacuum solutions admit Killing horizons, on which there exists a matter field only for and , which are of the Hawking-Ellis type~I and type~II, respectively. Differentiability of the metric on the horizon depends on the value of , and non-analytic extensions beyond the horizon are allowed for . In particular, solutions can be attached to the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini-type vacuum solution at the Killing horizon in at least a 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