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Title: Horizons and plane waves: A review

Abstract

We review the attempts to construct black hole/string solutions in asymptotically plane wave spacetimes. First, we demonstrate that geometries admitting a covariantly constant null Killing vector cannot admit event horizons, which implies that pp-waves can't describe black holes. However, relaxing the symmetry requirements allows us to generate solutions which do possess regular event horizons while retaining the requisite asymptotic properties. In particular, we present two solution generating techniques and use them to construct asymptotically plane wave black string/brane geometries.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Physics Division
OSTI Identifier:
964658
Report Number(s):
LBNL-54019
Journal ID: ISSN 0217-7323; MPLAEQ; TRN: US0903611
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Modern Physics Letters A
Additional Journal Information:
Related Information: Journal Publication Date: 14 Dec 2003; Journal ID: ISSN 0217-7323
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72; BLACK HOLES; SYMMETRY; VECTORS

Citation Formats

Hubeny, Veronika E, and Rangamani, Mukund. Horizons and plane waves: A review. United States: N. p., 2003. Web. doi:10.1142/S0217732303012428.
Hubeny, Veronika E, & Rangamani, Mukund. Horizons and plane waves: A review. United States. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732303012428
Hubeny, Veronika E, and Rangamani, Mukund. 2003. "Horizons and plane waves: A review". United States. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732303012428. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/964658.
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abstractNote = {We review the attempts to construct black hole/string solutions in asymptotically plane wave spacetimes. First, we demonstrate that geometries admitting a covariantly constant null Killing vector cannot admit event horizons, which implies that pp-waves can't describe black holes. However, relaxing the symmetry requirements allows us to generate solutions which do possess regular event horizons while retaining the requisite asymptotic properties. In particular, we present two solution generating techniques and use them to construct asymptotically plane wave black string/brane geometries.},
doi = {10.1142/S0217732303012428},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/964658}, journal = {Modern Physics Letters A},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2003},
month = {Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2003}
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