Static black hole uniqueness and Penrose inequality

Ryosuke Mizuno, Seiju Ohashi, and Tetsuya Shiromizu
Phys. Rev. D 81, 044030 – Published 17 February 2010

Abstract

Under certain conditions, we offer a new way to prove the uniqueness of the static black hole in higher dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes. In the proof, the Penrose inequality plays a key role in higher dimensions as well as four dimensions.

  • Received 30 November 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.044030

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ryosuke Mizuno1, Seiju Ohashi1,2, and Tetsuya Shiromizu1

  • 1Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
  • 2Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan

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Vol. 81, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2010

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