Rotating black holes in unified theories

Authors
Citation
Gw. Gibbons, Rotating black holes in unified theories, PROG T PH S, (136), 1999, pp. 18-28
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS SUPPLEMENT
ISSN journal
03759687 → ACNP
Issue
136
Year of publication
1999
Pages
18 - 28
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9687(1999):136<18:RBHIUT>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Some remarkable properties of the supersymmetric five-dimensional rotating solutions of Beckenridge, Myers, Feet and Vafa are described. The solutions may be under-rotating, in which case they are extreme black holes or over- rotating, in which case they are naked time machines. The geodesics and glo bal structure of the spacetime are analysed, including the possibility of t ime travel by freely falling observers. I argue, following recent work with C. Herdeiro, that the over-rotating solutions cannot be reached from the u nder-rotating black hole solutions by a physical process using a finite amo unt of energy. This would fit in with the Chronology Protection conjecture.