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1Physics Department and Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Abstract:
We consider a Galileon field coupled to gravity. The standard no-hair theorems do not apply because of the Galileon's peculiar derivative interactions. We prove that, nonetheless, static spherically symmetric black holes cannot sustain nontrivial Galileon profiles. Our theorem holds for trivial boundary conditions and for cosmological ones, and regardless of whether there are nonminimal couplings between the Galileon and gravity of the covariant Galileon type.
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