MAKING ANTI-DE SITTER BLACK-HOLES

It is known from the work of Banados et al that a spacetime with event horizons (much like the Schwarzschild black hole) can be obtained fro m (2 + 1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space through a suitable identifi cation of points. We point out that this can be done in 3 + 1 dimensio ns as well. In this way we obtain black holes with event horizons that are tori or Riemann surfaces of genus higher than one. They can have either one or two asymptotic regions (with non-standard topology). Loc ally, the spacetime,is isometric to anti-de Sitter space.