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On uniqueness of stationary vacuum black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-06-20 v2

Abstract

We prove uniqueness of the Kerr black holes within the connected, non-degenerate, analytic class of regular vacuum black holes.

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@article{arxiv.0806.0016,
  title  = {On uniqueness of stationary vacuum black holes},
  author = {Piotr T. Chruściel and João Lopes Costa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0016},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Typos corrected; the general claim about non-existence of non-embedded degenerate prehorizons withdrawn, replaced by an analysis which assumes either analyticity or axisymmetry