Uniqueness of near-horizon geometries of rotating extremal AdS(4) black holes

Dec, 2008
18 pages
Published in:
  • Class.Quant.Grav. 26 (2009) 055019
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DAMTP-2008-114,
  • DCPT-08-67

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We consider stationary extremal black hole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a negative cosmological constant in four dimensions. We determine all non-static axisymmetric near-horizon geometries and all static near-horizon geometries for black holes of this kind. This allows us to deduce that the most general near-horizon geometry of an asymptotically globally AdS(4) rotating extremal black hole, is the near-horizon limit of extremal Kerr-Newman-AdS(4). We also identify the subset of near-horizon geometries which are supersymmetric. Finally, we show which physical quantities of extremal black holes may be computed from the near-horizon limit alone, and point out a simple formula for the entropy of the known supersymmetric AdS(4) black hole. Analogous results are presented in the case of vanishing cosmological constant.
  • Einstein-Maxwell equation: solution
  • cosmological constant: negative
  • symmetry: axial
  • black hole: anti-de Sitter
  • supersymmetry
  • black hole: rotation
  • entropy