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No-go theorem for false vacuum black holes

Dmitri V Gal'tsov1,3 and José P S Lemos2

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We study the possibility of non-singular black hole solutions in the theory of general relativity coupled to a nonlinear scalar field with a positive potential possessing two minima: a `false vacuum' with positive energy and a `true vacuum' with zero energy. Assuming that the scalar field starts at the false vacuum at the origin and comes to the true vacuum at spatial infinity, we prove a no-go theorem by extending a no-hair theorem to the black hole interior: no smooth solutions exist which interpolate between the local de Sitter solution near the origin and the asymptotic Schwarzschild solution through a regular event horizon or several horizons.


PACS

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

MSC

83C20 Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries

83C57 Black holes

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 9 (7 May 2001)

Received 11 September 2000



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