Uniqueness of photon spheres in electro-vacuum spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/7/075006zbMATH Open1336.83024arXiv1508.00355OpenAlexW3101868813MaRDI QIDQ2806312FDOQ2806312

Authors: Carla Cederbaum, Gregory J. Galloway 

Publication date: 17 May 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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