Published May 7, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Analytic continuation for asymptotically AdS 3D gravity

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (United States)

Description

We have previously proposed that asymptotically (Anti de Sitter) AdS 3D wormholes and black holes can be analytically continued to the Euclidean signature. The analytic continuation procedure was described for non-rotating spacetimes, for which a plane t=0 of time symmetry exists. The resulting Euclidean manifolds turned out to be handlebodies whose boundary is the Schottky double of the geometry of the t=0 plane. In the present paper we generalize this analytic continuation map to the case of rotating wormholes. The Euclidean manifolds we obtain are quotients of the hyperbolic space by a certain quasi-Fuchsian group. The group is the Fenchel-Nielsen deformation of the group of the non-rotating spacetime. The angular velocity of an asymptotic region is shown to be related to the Fenchel-Nielsen twist. This solves the problem of classification of rotating black holes and wormholes in (2 + 1) dimensions: the spacetimes are parametrized by the moduli of the boundary of the corresponding Euclidean spaces. We also comment on the thermodynamics of the wormhole spacetimes

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/2399/q20906.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 2399-2424
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34033005
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS; ANGULAR VELOCITY; BLACK HOLES; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; ROTATION; SPACE-TIME
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MOTION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE; VELOCITY