Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Theories and Topological Black Holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It has been recently pointed out that black holes of constant curvature with a "chronological singularity" can be constructed in any spacetime dimension. These black holes share many common properties with the 2+1 black hole. In this contribution we give a brief summary of these new black holes and consider them as solutions of a Chern-Simons gravity theory. We also provide a brief introduction to some aspects of higher dimensional Chern-Simons theories.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9803002,
title = {Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Theories and Topological Black Holes},
author = {Maximo Banados},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9803002},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages, Latex. Talk given at the Conference "Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems VI", Santiago, Chile, Aug 1997