Scalar fields in multidimensional gravity. No-hair and other no-go theorems

Abstract: Global properties of static, spherically symmetric configurations of scalar fields of sigma-model type with arbitrary potentials are studied in

D

dimensions, including space-times containing multiple internal factor spaces. The latter are assumed to be Einstein spaces, not necessarily Ricci-flat, and the potential

V

includes contributions from their curvatures. The following results generalize those known in four dimensions: (A) a no-hair theorem: in case

V g e q 0

, an asymptotically flat black hole cannot have varying scalar fields or moduli fields outside the event horizon; (B) nonexistence of particlelike solutions in models with

V g e q 0

; (C) nonexistence of wormholes under very general conditions; (D) a restriction on possible global causal structures (represented by Carter-Penrose diagrams). The list of structures in all models under consideration is the same as is known for vacuum with a cosmological constant in general relativity: Minkowski (or AdS), Schwarzschild, de Sitter and Schwarzschild--de Sitter, and horizons which bound a static region are always simple. The results are applicable to a wide range of Kaluza-Klein, supergravity and stringy models with multiple dilaton and moduli fields.

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Global properties of static, spherically symmetric configurations with scalar fields of sigma-model type with arbitrary potentials are studied in \(D\) dimensions, including models where the space-time contains multiple internal factor spaces. The authors discuss the properties of self-gravitating \(\sigma\)-models with the Lagrangian \(L_{sc}=H_{KL}(\vec\varphi)(\partial\varphi^K,\partial\varphi^L)-2 V(\vec\varphi)\) in space-times with the metric \(ds^2=e^{2\gamma}dt^2-e^{2\alpha}du^2-e^{2\beta}d\Omega_{d_0}^2\), where \(\alpha,\beta,\gamma\) are functions of the radial coordinate \(u\) and \(d\Omega_{d_0}^2\) is the linear element on the sphere \(S^{d_0}\) of unit radius. The no-hair theorem of the nonexistence, in the case \(V\geq 0\), of asymptotically flat black holes with varying scalar fields or moduli fields outside the event horizon for these systems is proved. Then the authors show that particlelike solutions of any mass cannot be obtained in a field model with a nonnegative potential \(V(\vec\varphi)\) and this result strengthens the generalized Rosen theorem known in general relativity. They also prove the nonexistence of wormhole solutions under very general conditions.

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