Kerr-de Sitter black holes with NUT charges Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The four-dimensional Kerr-de Sitter and Kerr-AdS black hole metrics have cohomogeneity 2, and they admit a generalisation in which an additional parameter characterising a NUT charge is included. In this paper, we study the higher-dimensional Kerr-AdS metrics, specialised to cohomogeneity 2 by appropriate restrictions on their rotation parameters, and we show how they too admit a generalisation in which an additional NUT-type parameter is introduced. We discuss also the supersymmetric limits of the new metrics. If one performs a Wick rotation to Euclidean spacetime signature, these yield new Einstein-Sasaki metrics in odd dimensions, and Ricci-flat metrics in even dimensions. We also study the five-dimensional Kerr-AdS black holes in detail. Although in this particular case the NUT parameter is trivial, our investigation reveals the remarkable feature that a five-dimensional Kerr-AdS "over-rotating" metric is equivalent, after performing a coordinate transformation, to an under-rotating Kerr-AdS metric. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • NUCLEAR PHYSICS B

author list (cited authors)

  • Chen, W., Lue, H., & Pope, C. N.

citation count

  • 48

publication date

  • January 2007