Regularity of singular harmonic maps and axially symmetric stationary electrovacuum spacetimes

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Luc Nguyen, Rutgers University

According to the Ernst-Geroch reduction, to each axially symmetric stationary vacuum/electro-vacuum spacetime, one can associate an axially symmetric harmonic map with singular boundary behavior. This idea has been exploited in the literature to construct asymptotically flat, axially symmetric stationary spacetimes with disconnected horizons, i.e. having multiple black holes. This family of spacetimes is uniquely parameterized by the 鈥渕asses鈥, the 鈥渕omenta鈥, the 鈥渃harges鈥 of the black holes and the 鈥渄istances鈥 between them. I鈥檒l discuss the regularity of the corresponding reduced harmonic maps and its implication on the regularity of those spacetimes.