4.5 KK topological censorship
Black-hole uniqueness in four-dimensions uses simple connectedness of the event horizon extensively. But
the Schwarzschild metric multiplied by a flat torus shows that simple connectedness does not hold for
general domains of outer communications of Kaluza–Klein black holes. Fortunately, simple connectedness of
the orbit space
suffices: for instance, to prove that the
-dimensional orbit
generated by the stationary and axial vectors is timelike in
away from the axes
(which in turn is essential to the construction of Weyl coordinates), to guarantee the existence of
global twist potentials [65] and to exclude the existence of exceptional orbits of the toroidal
action (see Section 4.4). The generalized topological censorship theorem of [73] shows that
this property follows from the simple connectedness of the orbit space in the asymptotic end
.