From static to cosmological solutions of \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) supergravity (Q2273497)

In spite of the black holes in string theory is far from experimental (observational) evidence the paper is of actual interest, in view of very developed mathematical apparatus involved. Recently discovered massive and supermassive black holes are sufficiently well described by traditional General relativity theory in 4 dimensions. Meanwhile, the string version of black holes theory was of very intense interest during last 20 to 30 years and some its aspects remained unexamined. Many theoretical physicists, which are cited at the finish of the paper concerned a great part of their research activity to string models and supergravity which requires the idea supersymmetry in order to give a unique description for bosons and fermions, as well as generalizations of strings in more dimensions: p-branes. The authors of the paper under reviewing solve a particular problem: they obtain cosmological solutions with Kasner-like asymptotics in \(N = 2\) gauged and ungauged supergravity by maximal analytic continuation of planar versions of non-extremal black hole solutions. The Kasner metric is well known from the classic handbook on exact solutions of Einstein equations [\textit{H. Stephani} et al., Exact solutions of Einstein's field equations. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003; Zbl 1057.83004)]. Initially, the authors construct static solutions with planar symmetry by solving the time-reduced field equations. Upon lifting back to four dimensions, the resulting static regions are incomplete and bounded by a curvature singularity on one side and a Killing horizon on the other. Analytic continuation reveals the existence of dynamic patches in the past and future, with Kasner-like asymptotics. For the ungauged STU-model, the authors's solutions contain previously known solutions with the same conformal diagram as a subset. They find explicit lifts to five, six, ten and eleven dimensions which show that in the extremal limit, the underlying brane configuration is the same as for STU black holes. The extremal limit of the six-dimensional lift is shown to be BPS for special choices of the integration constants. They argue that there is a universal correspondence between spherically symmetric black hole solutions and planar cosmological solutions which can be illustrated using the Reissner-Nordström solution of Einstein-Maxwell theory.