English

Black Holes of Constant Curvature

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Black holes of constant curvature are constructed by identifying points in anti-de Sitter space. In n dimensions the resulting topology is R^{n-1} * S_1, as opposed to the usual R^2 * S_{n-2} Schwarzschild black hole.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9710052,
  title  = {Black Holes of Constant Curvature},
  author = {Maximo Banados},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9710052},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

3 pages, latex [mprocl], no figures. To appear in Proceedings of MG8. Misprints corrected and some sentences added to clarify the nature of the black hole horizon