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Charged and rotating near-horizon geometries in five dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-07-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present new charged and rotating near-horizon geometries in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory in closed analytic form. The solutions can be parametrised by the charge and two independent angular momenta. We also generalise these near-horizon geometries to theories with an additional Chern-Simons term in the action multiplied by an arbitrary coupling constant. The new solutions have the same entropy relations as expected for charged versions of extremal Myers-Perry black holes and for rotating versions of extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om-Tangherlini black holes, but they do not reduce to the Myers-Perry horizon in the vacuum limit. The horizon cross-sections are spherical and carry a Sasakian structure. We exploit this structure to prove a characterisation of our solutions: without any symmetry assumptions, they are the most general rotating extremal horizons for which the co-rotating electric field is a (non-zero) constant. We further extend this construction to higher dimensions, where we show that any Sasaki-Einstein manifold generates a two-parameter family of charged and rotating horizons.

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@article{arxiv.2606.26263,
  title  = {Charged and rotating near-horizon geometries in five dimensions},
  author = {Alex Colling and Jun Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.26263},
  year   = {2026}
}

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42 pages, 3 figures; v2 reference added