Black holes on cylinders are not algebraically special
Abstract
We give a Petrov classification for five-dimensional metrics. We give an almost complete classification of Ricci-flat metrics that are static, have an SO(3) isometry group and have Petrov type 22. We use this classification to look for the metric of a black hole on a cylinder, i.e., a black hole with asymptotic geometry four-dimensional Minkowski space times a circle. Although a black string wrapped around the S1 and the five-dimensional black hole are both algebraically special, it turns out that the black hole on a cylinder is not.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- October 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0264-9381/19/19/307
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0206106
- Bibcode:
- 2002CQGra..19.4877D
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 21 pages, 1 figure