Uniqueness of photon spheres in electro-vacuum spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/7/075006zbMATH Open1336.83024OpenAlexW3101868813MaRDI QIDQ2806312FDOQ2806312

Authors Carla Cederbaum, Gregory J. Galloway 

Publication date 17 May 2016

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00355

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimesasymptotically flatelectrostaticphoton spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In a recent paper, the authors established the uniqueness of photon spheres in static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes by adapting Bunting and Masood-ul-Alam's proof of static vacuum black hole uniqueness. Here, we establish uniqueness of suitably defined sub-extremal photon spheres in static electro-vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes by adapting the argument of Masood-ul-Alam. As a consequence of our result, we can rule out the existence of electrostatic configurations involving multiple "very compact" electrically charged bodies and sub-extremal black holes.

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