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Phys. Rev. D 66, 044010 (2002) [6 pages]

Uniqueness of (dilatonic) charged black holes and black p-branes in higher dimensions

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Gary W. Gibbons
DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom

Daisuke Ida
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan

Tetsuya Shiromizu
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

Received 19 June 2002; published 19 August 2002

We prove the uniqueness of higher dimensional (dilatonic) charged black holes in static and asymptotically flat spacetimes for an arbitrary vector-dilaton coupling constant. An application to the uniqueness of a wide class of black p-branes is also given.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.044010
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.044010
PACS:
04.50.+h, 04.70.Bw
 
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