Stationary Black Holes: Uniqueness and Beyond

Author(s)
Piotr T. Chrusciel, Joao Lopes Costa, Markus Heusler
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.

Organisation(s)
Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s)
Universidade de Lisboa, Universität Zürich (UZH)
Journal
Living Reviews in Relativity
Volume
15
No. of pages
73
ISSN
1433-8351
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2012-7
Publication date
2012
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
1030 Physics, Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d6858d67-1850-40a3-992a-d9f97d7780af