Nonexistence of degenerate horizons in static vacua and black hole uniqueness

We show that in any spacetime dimension D≥4, degenerate components of the event horizon do not exist in static vacuum configurations with positive cosmological constant. We also show that without a cosmological constant asymptotically flat solutions cannot possess a degenerate horizon component. Sev...

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Main Authors: Marcus Khuri, Eric Woolgar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317310298