The geometry and topology of stationary multiaxisymmetric vacuum black holes in higher dimensions (Q6043342)

The authors extend their previous work to 5 dimensions and prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the reduced Einstein equations for vacuum black holes in \(n(n+3)\)-dimensional spacetimes admitting the isometry group \(\mathbb{R}\times U(1)^n\), with Kaluza-Klein asymmetries for \(n\geq 3\). They also analyze the topology of the domain of outer communication for these spacetimes, by developing an appropriate generalization of the plumbing construction used in lower dimensions. Furthermore they provide a counterexample to a conjecture of \textit{S. Hollands} and \textit{A. Ishibashi} [Classical Quantum Gravity 29, No. 16, Article ID 163001, 47 p. (2012; Zbl 1252.83005)] concerning the topological classification of the domain of outer communication. A refined version of the conjecture is then presented and established in spacetime dimensions less than 8.