ROTATING TOPOLOGICAL BLACK-HOLES

A class of metrics solving Einstein's equations with a negative cosmol ogical constant and representing rotating, topological black holes is presented. All such solutions are in the Petrov type-D class, and can be obtained from the most general metric known in this class by acting with suitably chosen discrete groups of isometries. First, by analyti cal continuation of the Kerr-de Sitter metric, a solution describing u ncharged, rotating black holes whose event horizon is a Riemann surfac e of arbitrary genus g>1, is obtained. Then a solution representing a rotating, uncharged toroidal black hole is also presented. The higher genus black holes appear to be quite exotic objects; they lack global axial symmetry and have an intricate causal structure. The toroidal bl ack holes appear to be simpler: they have rotational symmetry and the amount of rotation they can have is bounded by some power of the mass.