Uniqueness of Extremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman Black Holes Export

@article{citeulike:5043409, abstract = {We prove that the only four dimensional, stationary, rotating, asymptotically flat 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 longstanding gap in the black hole uniqueness theorems.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Amsel, Aaron J. and Horowitz, Gary T. and Marolf, Donald and Roberts, Matthew M.}, citeulike-article-id = {5043409}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2367}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2367}, day = {30}, eprint = {0906.2367}, keywords = {bh, uniqueness\_theorems}, month = {Jun}, posted-at = {2009-07-02 22:22:30}, priority = {2}, title = {Uniqueness of Extremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman Black Holes}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2367}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5043409 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5043409 N2 - We prove that the only four dimensional, stationary, rotating, asymptotically flat 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 longstanding gap in the black hole uniqueness theorems. TI - Uniqueness of Extremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman Black Holes KW - bh KW - uniqueness_theorems AU - Amsel, Aaron AU - Horowitz, Gary AU - Marolf, Donald AU - Roberts, Matthew PY - 2009/Jun/30/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2367 ER -