Uniqueness of extremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes

Aaron J. Amsel, Gary T. Horowitz, Donald Marolf, and Matthew M. Roberts
Phys. Rev. D 81, 024033 – Published 22 January 2010

Abstract

We prove that the only four-dimensional, stationary, rotating, asymptotically flat (analytic) vacuum black hole with a single degenerate horizon is given by the extremal Kerr solution. We also prove a similar uniqueness theorem for the extremal Kerr-Newman solution. This closes a long-standing gap in the black hole uniqueness theorems.

  • Received 25 November 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.024033

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Aaron J. Amsel*, Gary T. Horowitz, Donald Marolf, and Matthew M. Roberts§

  • Department of Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA

  • *amsel@physics.ucsb.edu
  • gary@physics.ucsb.edu
  • marolf@physics.ucsb.edu
  • §matt@physics.ucsb.edu

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Vol. 81, Iss. 2 — 15 January 2010

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