Uniqueness of photon spheres via positive mass rigidity
Cederbaum, Carla · Galloway, Gregory J.
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In a recent paper the first author established the uniqueness of photon spheres, suitably defined, in static vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes by adapting Israel's proof of static black hole uniqueness. In this note we establish uniqueness of photon spheres by adapting the argument of Bunting and Masood-ul-Alam, which then allows certain assumptions to be relaxed. In particular, multiple photon spheres are allowed a priori. As a consequence of our result, we can rule out the existence of static configurations involving multiple "very compact" bodies and black holes.
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