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Axisymmetric metrics in arbitrary dimensions

Christos Charmousis1 and Ruth Gregory2

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We consider axially symmetric static metrics in arbitrary dimension, both with and without a cosmological constant. The most obvious such solutions have an SO(n) group of Killing vectors representing the axial symmetry, although one can also consider Abelian groups which represent a flat 'internal space'. We relate such metrics to lower-dimensional dilatonic cosmological metrics with a Liouville potential. We also develop a duality relation between vacuum solutions with internal curvature and those with zero internal curvature but a cosmological constant. This duality relation gives a solution-generating technique permitting the mapping of different spacetimes. We give a large class of solutions to the vacuum or cosmological constant spacetimes. We comment on the extension of the C-metric to higher dimensions and provide a novel solution for a braneworld black hole.


PACS

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

11.25.Wx String and brane phenomenology

02.20.Qs General properties, structure, and representation of Lie groups

MSC

20Kxx Abelian groups

83C57 Black holes

22Exx Lie groups (For the topology of Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, see 57Sxx, 57Txx; for analysis thereon, see 43A80, 43A85, 43A90)

83F05 Cosmology

83C20 Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 2 (21 January 2004)

Received 14 July 2003

Published 10 December 2003



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