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On non-existence of static vacuum black holes with degenerate components of the event horizon

Piotr T. Chrusciel, Harvey S. Reall, Paul Tod

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0512041

Abstract

We present a simple proof of the non-existence of degenerate components of the event horizon in static, vacuum, regular, four-dimensional black hole spacetimes. We discuss the generalisation to higher dimensions and the inclusion of a cosmological constant.

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