Published September 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Black string solutions with negative cosmological constant

  • 1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5 (Canada)
  • 2. Department of Mathematical Physics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 (Canada)

Description

We present arguments for the existence of new black string solutions with negative cosmological constant. These higher-dimensional configurations have no dependence on the 'compact' extra dimension, and their conformal infinity is the product of time and Sd-3 x R or Hd-3 x R. The configurations with an event horizon topology Sd-2 x S1 have a nontrivial, globally regular limit with zero event horizon radius. We discuss the general properties of such solutions and, using a counterterm prescription, we compute their conserved charges and discuss their thermodynamics. Upon performing a dimensional reduction we prove that the reduced action has an effective SL(2,R) symmetry. This symmetry is used to construct non-trivial solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton system with a Liouville-type potential for the dilaton in (d-1)-dimensions

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=09/a=073/jhep092006073.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2006
Journal Issue
09
Journal Page Range
p. 073
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38004144
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; TOPOLOGY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICS