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Rotating Black Holes which Saturate a Bogomol'nyi Bound

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct and study the electrically charged, rotating black hole solution in heterotic string theory compactified on a (10D)(10-D) dimensional torus. This black hole is characterized by its mass, angular momentum, and a (362D)(36-2D) dimensional electric charge vector. One of the novel features of this solution is that for D>5D >5, its extremal limit saturates the Bogomol'nyi bound. This is in contrast with the D=4D=4 case where the rotating black hole solution develops a naked singularity before the Bogomol'nyi bound is reached. The extremal black holes can be superposed, and by taking a periodic array in D>5D>5, one obtains effectively four dimensional solutions without naked singularities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9509108,
  title  = {Rotating Black Holes which Saturate a Bogomol'nyi Bound},
  author = {Gary Horowitz and Ashoke Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9509108},
  year   = {2009}
}

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