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Starting from a metric Ansatz permitting a weak version of Birkhoff’s theorem we find static black hole solutions including matter in the form of free scalar and p-form fields, with and without a cosmological constant Λ. Single p-form matter fields permit multiple possibilities, including dyonic solutions, self-dual instantons and metrics with Einstein-Kälher horizons. The inclusion of multiple p-forms on the other hand, arranged in a homogeneous fashion with respect to the horizon geometry, permits the construction of higher dimensional dyonic p-form black holes and four dimensional axionic black holes with flat horizons, when Λ < 0. It is found that axionic fields regularize black hole solutions in the sense, for example, of permitting regular — rather than singular — small mass Reissner-Nordstrom type black holes. Their cosmic string and Vaidya versions are also obtained.
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Bardoux, Y., Caldarelli, M.M. & Charmousis, C. Shaping black holes with free fields. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 54 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2012)054
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