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Higher dimensional Robinson-Trautman spacetimes sourced by p-forms: static and radiating black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-02-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We summarize results about Robinson-Trautman spacetimes in the presence of an aligned pp-form Maxwell field and an arbitrary cosmological constant in n4n\ge 4 dimensions. While in odd dimensions the solutions reduce to static black holes dressed with an electric and a magnetic field (with an Einstein space horizon), in even dimensions 2p=n2p=n they may also describe black holes gaining (or losing) mass by receiving (or emitting) electromagnetic radiation. The Weyl type of the spacetimes is also briefly discussed in all the possible cases.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04853,
  title  = {Higher dimensional Robinson-Trautman spacetimes sourced by p-forms: static and radiating black holes},
  author = {Marcello Ortaggio and Jiri Podolsky and Martin Zofka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04853},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages; compact summary of arXiv:1411.1943. Proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, July 12-18, 2015 (http://www.icra.it/mg/mg14/)