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Kaluza-Klein Monopole in AdS Spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct analogs of the flat space Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopoles in locally Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces for D5+1D \ge 5+1. We show that, unlike the flat space KK monopole, there is no five dimensional static KK monopole in AdS that smoothly reduces to the flat space one as the cosmological constant goes to zero. Thus, one needs at least two extra dimensions, one of which is compact, to get a static KK monopole in cosmological backgrounds.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301027,
  title  = {Kaluza-Klein Monopole in AdS Spacetime},
  author = {Vakif K. Onemli and Bayram Tekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301027},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, clarifying remarks added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D