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Connecting black holes and black strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Static vacuum spacetimes with one compact dimension include black holes with localised horizons but also uniform and non-uniform black strings where the horizon wraps over the compact dimension. We present new numerical solutions for these localised black holes in 5 and 6-dimensions. Combined with previous 6-d non-uniform string results, these provide evidence that the black hole and non-uniform string branches join at a topology changing solution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409111,
  title  = {Connecting black holes and black strings},
  author = {Hideaki Kudoh and Toby Wiseman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409111},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 7 figures. Minor corrections. Accepted for PRL

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