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INVENTIONES MATHEMATICAE
Volume 175, Issue 1, Pages 35-102Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-008-0146-6
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- NSF [DMS- 0070696]
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A fundamental conjecture in general relativity asserts that the domain of outer communication of a regular, stationary, four dimensional, vacuum black hole solution is isometrically diffeomorphic to the domain of outer communication of a Kerr black hole. So far the conjecture has been resolved, by combining results of Hawking [17], Carter [4] and Robinson [28], under the additional hypothesis of non-degenerate horizons and real analyticity of the space-time. We develop a new strategy to bypass analyticity based on a tensorial characterization of the Kerr solutions, due to Mars [24], and new geometric Carleman estimates. We prove, under a technical assumption (an identity relating the Ernst potential and the Killing scalar) on the bifurcate sphere of the event horizon, that the domain of outer communication of a smooth, regular, stationary Einstein vacuum spacetime of dimension 4 is locally isometric to the domain of outer communication of a Kerr spacetime.
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