Scalar Fields in Multidimensional Gravity. No-Hair and Other No-Go Theorems

Global properties of static, spherically symmetric configurations with scalar fields of sigma-model type with arbitrary potentials are studied in D dimensions, including models where the space-time contains multiple internal factor spaces. The latter are assumed to be Einstein spaces, not necessarily Ricci-flat, and the potential V includes a contribution from their curvatures. The following results generalize those known in four dimensions: (A) a no-hair theorem on the nonexistence, in case V ≥ 0, of asymptotically flat black holes with varying scalar fields or moduli fields outside the event horizon; (B) nonexistence of particlelike solutions in field models with V ≥ 0; (C) nonexistence of wormhole solutions under very general conditions; (D) a restriction on possible global causal structures (represented by Carter-Penrose diagrams). The list of structures in all models under consideration is the same as is known for vacuum with a cosmological constant in general relativity: Minkowski (or AdS), Schwarzschild, de Sitter and Schwarzschild - de Sitter, and horizons which bound a static region are always simple. The results are applicable to various Kaluza-Klein, supergravity and stringy models with multiple dilaton and moduli fields.