Pair creation of dilaton black holes

Sep 17, 1993
20 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 2909-2917
e-Print:
Report number:
  • EFI-93-51,
  • FERMILAB-PUB-93-272-A,
  • UMHEP-393

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We consider dilaton gravity theories in four spacetime dimensions parametrised by a constant aa, which controls the dilaton coupling, and construct new exact solutions. We first generalise the C-metric of Einstein-Maxwell theory (a=0a=0) to solutions corresponding to oppositely charged dilaton black holes undergoing uniform acceleration for general aa. We next develop a solution generating technique which allows us to ``embed" the dilaton C-metrics in magnetic dilaton Melvin backgrounds, thus generalising the Ernst metric of Einstein-Maxwell theory. By adjusting the parameters appropriately, it is possible to eliminate the nodal singularities of the dilaton C-metrics. For a<1a<1 (but not for a1a\ge 1), it is possible to further restrict the parameters so that the dilaton Ernst solutions have a smooth euclidean section with topology S2×S2{pt}S^2\times S^2-{\rm\{pt\}}, corresponding to instantons describing the pair production of dilaton black holes in a magnetic field. A different restriction on the parameters leads to smooth instantons for all values of aa with topology S2×R2S^2\times \R^2.
Note:
  • 22 pages, EFI-93-51, FERMILAB-Pub-93/272-A, UMHEP-393. (Asymptotics of Ernst solutions clarified, typos repaired)
  • postulated particle: dilaton
  • gravitation: dilaton
  • black hole: dilaton
  • black hole: pair production
  • pair production: black hole
  • magnetic field: external field
  • Einstein-Maxwell equation
  • field equations: instanton