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The rigid Horowitz-Myers conjecture
The "new positive energy conjecture" Horowitz and Myers (1999) probes a
possible nonsupersymmetric AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider a version
formulated for complete, asymptotically Poincar\'e-Einstein Riemannian metrics
with bounded scalar curvature . This version then asserts
that any such must have mass not less than the mass of a metric
induced on a time-symmetric slice of a certain AdS soliton spacetime. The
conjecture remains unproved, having so far resisted standard techniques. Little
is known other than that the conjecture is true for metrics which are
sufficiently small perturbations of . We pose another test for the
conjecture. We assume its validity and attempt to prove as a corollary the
corresponding scalar curvature rigidity statement, that is the unique
asymptotically Poincar\'e-Einstein metric with mass obeying . Were a second such metric not isometric to to exist, it
then may well admit perturbations of lower mass, contradicting the assumed
validity of the conjecture. We find that the minimum mass metric must be static
Einstein, so the problem is reduced to that of static uniqueness. When
the manifold is isometric to a time-symmetric slice of an AdS soliton
spacetime, unless it has a non-compact horizon. En route we study the mass
aspect, obtaining and generalizing known results. The mass aspect is (i)
related to the holographic energy density, (ii) a weighted invariant under
boundary conformal transformations when the bulk dimension is odd, and (iii)
zero for negative Einstein manifolds with Einstein conformal boundary.Comment: Statement and proof of Lemma 3.1 corrected, other minor change
Nonexistence of Degenerate Horizons in Static Vacua and Black Hole Uniqueness
We show that in any spacetime dimension , degenerate components of
the event horizon do not exist in static vacuum configurations with positive
cosmological constant. We also show that without a cosmological constant
asymptotically flat solutions cannot possess a degenerate horizon component.
Several independent proofs are presented. One proof follows easily from
differential geometry in the near-horizon limit, while others use
Bakry-\'Emery-Ricci bounds for static Einstein manifolds.Comment: 8 pages; minor improvement
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