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Extremal Isolated Horizons: A Local Uniqueness Theorem

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-08-23 v3

Abstract

We derive all the axi-symmetric, vacuum and electrovac extremal isolated horizons. It turns out that for every horizon in this class, the induced metric tensor, the rotation 1-form potential and the pullback of the electromagnetic field necessarily coincide with those induced by the monopolar, extremal Kerr-Newman solution on the event horizon. We also discuss the general case of a symmetric, extremal isolated horizon. In particular, we analyze the case of a two-dimensional symmetry group generated by two null vector fields. Its relevance to the classification of all the symmetric isolated horizons, including the non-extremal once, is explained.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0208032,
  title  = {Extremal Isolated Horizons: A Local Uniqueness Theorem},
  author = {Jerzy Lewandowski and Tomasz Pawlowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0208032},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages, page size changed, typos and equations (142), (143a) corrected, PACS number added

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