The general Kerr-de Sitter metrics in all dimensions

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DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2004.05.001zbMATH Open1069.83003arXivhep-th/0404008OpenAlexW1984512112WikidataQ58665208 ScholiaQ58665208MaRDI QIDQ556183FDOQ556183


Authors: Don N. Page, Gary W. Gibbons, Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 June 2005

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give the general Kerr-de Sitter metric in arbitrary spacetime dimension Dge 4, with the maximal number [(D-1)/2] of independent rotation parameters. We obtain the metric in Kerr-Schild form, where it is written as the sum of a de Sitter metric plus the square of a null geodesic vector, and in generalised Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. The Kerr-Schild form is simpler for verifying that the Einstein equations are satisfied, and we have explicitly checked our results for all dimensions Dle 11. We discuss the global structure of the metrics, and obtain formulae for the surface gravities and areas of the event horizons. We also obtain the Euclidean-signature solutions, and we construct complete non-singular compact Einstein spaces on associated S^{D-2} bundles over S^2, infinitely many for each odd D ge 5.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404008




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