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Uniqueness of photon spheres in static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes

Differential Geometry 2014-09-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Adapting Israel's proof of static black hole uniqueness, we show that the Schwarzschild spacetime is the only static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetime that possesses a suitably defined photon sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5475,
  title  = {Uniqueness of photon spheres in static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes},
  author = {Carla Cederbaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5475},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Journal version (contemp. math.: Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems VI)