Global extensions of spacetimes describing asymptotic final states of black holes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/3/017zbMATH Open0866.53071arXivgr-qc/9507055OpenAlexW3101199792MaRDI QIDQ4873095FDOQ4873095

Robert M. Wald, István Rácz

Publication date: 20 July 1997

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

Abstract: We consider a globally hyperbolic, stationary spacetime containing a black hole but no white hole. We assume, further, that the event horizon, $n$, of the black hole is a Killing horizon with compact cross-sections. We prove that if surface gravity is non-zero constant throughout the horizon one can {it globally} extend such a spacetime so that the image of $calN$ is a proper subset of a regular bifurcate Killing horizon in the enlarged spacetime. The necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the extendibility of matter fields to the enlarged spacetime. These conditions are automatically satisfied if the spacetime is static (and, hence ``$t$"-reflection symmetric) or stationary-axisymmetric with ``$t-phi$" reflection isometry and the matter fields respect the reflection isometry. In addition, we prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the constancy of the surface gravity on a Killing horizon is that the exterior derivative of the twist of the horizon Killing field vanish on the horizon. As a corollary of this, we recover a result of Carter that constancy of surface gravity holds for any black hole which is static or stationary- axisymmetric with the ``$t-phi$" reflection isometry. No use of Einstein's equation is made in obtaining any of the above results. Taken together, these results support the view that any spacetime representing the asymptotic final state of a black hole formed by gravitational collapse may be assumed to possess a bifurcate Killing horizon or a Killing horizon with vanishing surface gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9507055

zbMATH Keywords

globally hyperbolic spacetimeevent horizonconstancy of surface gravityglobal extension of spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57)

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