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Extended black holes in strong gravitational waves

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-29 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We describe a large class of solutions in pure gravity, dilaton gravity and supergravity corresponding to extended higher-dimensional black holes with strong (non-linear) gravitational waves propagating along their worldvolume. For pure gravity, the extended black holes are higher-dimensional analogs of the point-like Schwarzschild black hole in four dimensions. For supergravity, they are non-extremal p-branes. The gravitational waves can be both space-filling and localized around the worldvolume of the extended black holes. The solutions we present contain a large number of arbitrary functions of the light-cone time describing the amplitudes of different non-linear gravitational wave modes.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4455,
  title  = {Extended black holes in strong gravitational waves},
  author = {Li-Ming Cao and Oleg Evnin and Nobuyoshi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4455},
  year   = {2011}
}

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14 pages; v3: commentary and references extended, published version