A higher dimensional stationary rotating black hole must be axisymmetric

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 271, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 699-722

  Hollands, Stefan ^a   Ishibashi, Akihiro ^b   Wald, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 33947369900     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-007-0216-4     Document Type: Article

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