Uniqueness of Kottler spacetime and the Besse conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2010.09.010zbMATH Open1202.83068arXiv1009.0936OpenAlexW2963572311WikidataQ122942186 ScholiaQ122942186MaRDI QIDQ609388FDOQ609388

Authors: Philippe G. LeFloch, Luc Rozoy 

Publication date: 30 November 2010

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish a black hole uniqueness theorem for Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime, also called Kottler spacetime, which satisfies Einstein's field equations of general relativity with positive cosmological constant. Our result concerns the class of static vacuum spacetimes with compact spacelike slices and regular maximal level set of the lapse function. We provide a characterization of the interior domain of communication of the Kottler spacetime, which surrounds an inner horizon and is surrounded by a cosmological horizon. The proposed proof combines arguments from the theory of partial differential equations and differential geometry, and is centered on a detailed study of a possibly singular foliation. We also apply our technique in the Riemannian setting, and establish the validity of the so-called Besse conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0936

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57)

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