Kerr-de Sitter black holes with NUT charges

Jan, 2006
21 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 762 (2007) 38-54
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Report number:
  • MIFP-06-01

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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.
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • any-dimensional
  • black hole: Kerr
  • scaling