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Black holes on cylinders are not algebraically special

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We give a Petrov classification for five-dimensional metrics. We classify Ricci-flat metrics that are static, have an SO(3) isometry group and have Petrov type 22. We use this classification to look for the metric of a black hole on a cylinder, i.e. a black hole with asymptotic geometry four-dimensional Minkowski space times a circle. Although a black string wrapped around the circle and the five-dimensional black hole are both algebraically special, it turns out that the black hole on a cylinder is not.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0206106,
  title  = {Black holes on cylinders are not algebraically special},
  author = {Pieter-Jan De Smet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0206106},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, 1 figure; v2: classification completed, discussion simplified, references added