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On ``Time-Periodic'' Black-Hole Solutions to Certain Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Matter Systems

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This paper explores black hole solutions of various Einstein-wave matter systems admitting a time-orientation preserving isometry of their domain of outer communications taking some point to its future. In the first two parts, it is shown that such solutions, assuming in addition that they are spherically symmetric and the matter has a certain structure, must be Schwarzschild or Reissner-Nordström. Non-trivial examples of matter for which the result applies are a wave map and a massive charged scalar field interacting with an electromagnetic field. The results thus generalize work of Bekenstein [1] and Heusler [13] from the static to the periodic case. In the third part, which is independent of the first two, it is shown that Dirac fields preserved by an isometry of a spherically symmetric domain of outer communications of the type described above must vanish. It can be applied in particular to the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell equations or the Einstein-Dirac-Yang/Mills equations, generalizing work of Finster, Smoller and Yau [10, 8, 9 and also 7].

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Dafermos, M. On ``Time-Periodic'' Black-Hole Solutions to Certain Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Matter Systems. Commun. Math. Phys. 238, 411–427 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-003-0870-0

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