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

TL;DR

This paper proves the uniqueness of higher-dimensional charged black holes and black p-branes in static, asymptotically flat spacetimes, regardless of the vector-dilaton coupling, extending previous results to more general cases.

Contribution

It establishes the uniqueness theorem for a broad class of higher-dimensional (dilatonic) charged black holes and p-branes, regardless of the coupling constant.

Findings

Uniqueness of higher-dimensional charged black holes proven.

Applicability to a wide class of black p-branes demonstrated.

Results hold for arbitrary vector-dilaton coupling constant.

Abstract

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