Stationary Black Holes: Uniqueness and Beyond
Abstract
The spectrum of known black-hole solutions to the stationary Einstein equations has been steadily increasing, sometimes in unexpected ways. In particular, it has turned out that not all black-hole-equilibrium configurations are characterized by their mass, angular momentum and global charges. Moreover, the high degree of symmetry displayed by vacuum and electro-vacuum black-hole spacetimes ceases to exist in self-gravitating non-linear field theories. This text aims to review some developments in the subject and to discuss them in light of the uniqueness theorem for the Einstein-Maxwell system.
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@article{arxiv.1205.6112,
title = {Stationary Black Holes: Uniqueness and Beyond},
author = {Piotr T. Chruściel and João Lopes Costa and Markus Heusler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6112},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Major update of the original version by Markus Heusler from 1998. Piotr T. Chru\'sciel and Jo\~ao Lopes Costa succeeded to this review's authorship. Significantly restructured and updated all sections; changes are too numerous to be usefully described here. The number of references increased from 186 to 329