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Generalized Hot Attractors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Non-extremal black holes are endowed with geometric invariants related to their horizon areas. We extend earlier work on hot attractor black holes to higher dimensions and add a scalar potential. In addition to the event and Cauchy horizons, when we complexify the radial coordinate, non-extremal black holes will generically have other horizons as well. We prove that the product of all of the horizon areas is independent of variations of the asymptotic moduli further generalizing the attractor mechanism for extremal black holes. In the presence of a scalar potential, as typically appears in gauged supergravity, we find that the product of horizon areas is not necessarily the geometric mean of the extremal area, however. We outline the derivation of horizon invariants for stationary backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.1811.04963,
  title  = {Generalized Hot Attractors},
  author = {Kevin Goldstein and Vishnu Jejjala and James Junior Mashiyane and Suresh Nampuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04963},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

39 pages, 3 figures, v2 references and clarifications added

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