{"title":"Rigidity of the extremal Kerr–Newman horizon","authors":"Alex Colling, David Katona, James Lucietti","doi":"10.1007/s11005-025-01902-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We prove that the intrinsic geometry of compact cross sections of an extremal horizon in four-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory must admit a Killing vector field or is static. This implies that any such horizon must be an extremal Kerr–Newman horizon and completes the classification of the associated near-horizon geometries. The same results hold with a cosmological constant.\n</p></div>","PeriodicalId":685,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Mathematical Physics","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11005-025-01902-7.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Letters in Mathematical Physics","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11005-025-01902-7","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We prove that the intrinsic geometry of compact cross sections of an extremal horizon in four-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory must admit a Killing vector field or is static. This implies that any such horizon must be an extremal Kerr–Newman horizon and completes the classification of the associated near-horizon geometries. The same results hold with a cosmological constant.
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