Maximal analytic extensions of the Emparan-Reall black ring (Q621860)

The Emparan-Reall metrics is a class of vacuum black hole solutions of Einstein equations in signature \((1,4)\). The authors study the global geometry of Emparan-Reall space-time and prove that its event horizon coincides with a Killing horizon and has topology \(S^2 \times S^2 \times \mathbb{R}\). They construct an analytic extension with a bifurcate Killing horizon and establish some global properties of the extended space-time. In particular, it is proven that it is maximal, globally hyperbolic and it is unique in the class of simply connected analytic extensions having the property that all maximally extended causal geodesics with bounded square norm of the curvature tensor are complete. It is also shown that any non complete maximal causal geodesic reaches a singularity in finite time. The extension resembles closely the Kruskal-Szekeres extension of the Schwarzschild space-time and it has a black hole singularity, a white hole singularity and two asymptotically flat regions.