On black strings & branes in Lovelock gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
It is well known that black strings and branes may be constructed in pure Einstein gravity simply by adding flat directions to a vacuum black hole solution. A similar construction holds in the presence of a cosmological constant. While these constructions fail in general Lovelock theories, we show that they carry over straightforwardly within a class of Lovelock gravity theories that have (locally) unique constant curvature vacua.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0603168,
title = {On black strings & branes in Lovelock gravity},
author = {David Kastor and Robert Mann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0603168},
year = {2009}
}
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