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Three dimensional origin of Godel spacetimes and black holes

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

Abstract

We construct Godel-type black hole and particle solutions to Einstein-Maxwell theory in 2+1 dimensions with a negative cosmological constant and a Chern-Simons term. On-shell, the electromagnetic stress-energy tensor effectively replaces the cosmological constant by minus the square of the topological mass and produces the stress-energy of a pressure-free perfect fluid. We show how a particular solution is related to the original Godel universe and analyze the solutions from the point of view of identifications. Finally, we compute the conserved charges and work out the thermodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512105,
  title  = {Three dimensional origin of Godel spacetimes and black holes},
  author = {Maximo Banados and Glenn Barnich and Geoffrey Compere and Andres Gomberoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512105},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures, twocolumn revtex style, reference added, acknowledgments corrected