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Spacetime structure of 5D hypercylindrical vacuum solutions with tension

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-08-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate geometrical properties of 5D cylindrical vacuum solutions with a transverse spherical symmetry. The metric is uniform along the fifth direction and characterized by tension and mass densities. The solutions are classified by the tension-to-mass ratio. One particular example is the well-known Schwarzschild black string which has a curvature singularity enclosed by a horizon. We focus mainly on geometry of other solutions which possess a naked singularity. The light signal emitted by an object approaching the singularity reaches a distant observer with finite time, but is infinitely red-shifted.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1021,
  title  = {Spacetime structure of 5D hypercylindrical vacuum solutions with tension},
  author = {Inyong Cho and Gungwon Kang and Sang Pyo Kim and Chul H. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1021},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

revtex4, 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC10), Pohang, Korea, 21-24 Aug. 2007. Submitted to J. Korean Phys. Soc. Penrose diagram has been added

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