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No-Hair Theorems and Black Holes with Hair

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The critical steps leading to the uniqueness theorem for the Kerr-Newman metric are reexamined in the light of the new black hole solutions with Yang-Mills and scalar hair. Various methods -- including scaling techniques, arguments based on energy conditions, conformal transformations and divergence identities -- are reviewed, and their range of application to selfgravitating scalar and non-Abelian gauge fields is discussed. In particular, the no-hair theorem is extended to harmonic mappings with arbitrary Riemannian target manifolds. (This paper is an extended version of an invited lecture held at the Journ\'ees Relativistes 96.)

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9610019,
  title  = {No-Hair Theorems and Black Holes with Hair},
  author = {Markus Heusler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9610019},
  year   = {2007}
}

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28 pages, latex