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Exact Four-Dimensional Dyonic Black Holes and Bertotti-Robinson Spacetimes in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Conformal field theories corresponding to two-dimensional electrically charged black holes and to two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with a covariantly constant electric field are simply constructed as SL(2,R)/ZSL(2,R)/Z WZW coset models. The two-dimensional electrically charged black holes are related by Kaluza-Klein reduction to the 2+1-dimensional rotating black hole of Banados, Teitelboim and Zanelli, and our construction is correspondingly related to its realization as a WZW model. Four-dimensional spacetime solutions are obtained by tensoring these two-dimensional theories with SU(2)/Z(m)SU(2)/Z(m) coset models. These describe a family of dyonic black holes and the Bertotti--Robinson universe.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403186,
  title  = {Exact Four-Dimensional Dyonic Black Holes and Bertotti-Robinson Spacetimes in String Theory},
  author = {David A. Lowe and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403186},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, harvmac, (Reference to Kaloper added.)