English

Nuts have no hair

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-04-06 v1

Abstract

We show that the Riemannian Kerr solutions are the only Riemannian, Ricci-flat and asymptotically flat C2{\rm C}^{2}-metrics gμνg_{\mu\nu} on a 4-dimensional complete manifold M{\cal M} of topology R2×S2{\rm R}^{2} \times {\rm S}^{2} which have (at least) a 1-parameter group of periodic isometries with only isolated fixed points ("nuts") and with orbits of bounded length at infinity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9508042,
  title  = {Nuts have no hair},
  author = {Walter Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9508042},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

8 pages, Latex file, no figures

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