No hair for spherical black holes: Charged and nonminimally coupled scalar field with self-interaction

We prove three theorems in general relativity which rule out classical scalar hair of static, spherically symmetric, possibly electrically charged black holes. We first generalize Bekenstein's no-hair theorem for a. multiplet of minimally coupled real scalar fields with not necessarily quadratic action to the case of a charged black hole. We then use a conformal map of the geometry to convert the problem of a charged (or neutral) black hole with hair in the form of a neutral self-interacting scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity to the preceding problem, thus establishing a no-hair theorem for the cases with a nonminimal coupling parameter xi < 0 or xi greater than or equal to 1/2. The proof also makes use of a causality requirement on the field configuration. Finally, from the required behavior of the fields at the horizon and infinity we exclude hair of a charged black hole in the form of a charged self-interacting scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity for any xi.