CONSTANT CURVATURE BLACK-HOLES

Constant curvature black holes are constructed by identifying points i n anti-de Sitter space. In n dimensions, the resulting topology is R(n -1)xS(1), as opposed to the usual R(2)xS(n-2) Schwarzschild black hole , and the corresponding causal structure is displayed by an (n-1)-dime nsional picture, as opposed to the usual two-dimensional Kruskal diagr am. The five-dimensional case, which can be embedded in a Chern-Simons supergravity theory, is analyzed in detail.