Uniqueness of the extremal Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetime

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Main Authors: Katona, David, Lucietti, James
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author Katona, David
Lucietti, James
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Lucietti, James
contents We prove that any analytic vacuum spacetime with a positive cosmological constant in four and higher dimensions, that contains a static extremal Killing horizon with a maximally symmetric compact cross-section, must be locally isometric to either the extremal Schwarzschild de Sitter solution or its near-horizon geometry (the Nariai solution). In four-dimensions, this implies these solutions are the only analytic vacuum spacetimes that contain a static extremal horizon with compact cross-sections (up to identifications). We also consider the analogous uniqueness problem for the four-dimensional extremal hyperbolic Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter solution and show that it reduces to a spectral problem for the laplacian on compact hyperbolic surfaces, if a cohomological obstruction to the uniqueness of infinitesimal transverse deformations of the horizon is absent.
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spellingShingle Uniqueness of the extremal Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetime
Katona, David
Lucietti, James
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Differential Geometry
83C57 (primary) 83C05 (secondary)
We prove that any analytic vacuum spacetime with a positive cosmological constant in four and higher dimensions, that contains a static extremal Killing horizon with a maximally symmetric compact cross-section, must be locally isometric to either the extremal Schwarzschild de Sitter solution or its near-horizon geometry (the Nariai solution). In four-dimensions, this implies these solutions are the only analytic vacuum spacetimes that contain a static extremal horizon with compact cross-sections (up to identifications). We also consider the analogous uniqueness problem for the four-dimensional extremal hyperbolic Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter solution and show that it reduces to a spectral problem for the laplacian on compact hyperbolic surfaces, if a cohomological obstruction to the uniqueness of infinitesimal transverse deformations of the horizon is absent.
title Uniqueness of the extremal Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetime
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Differential Geometry
83C57 (primary) 83C05 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04238