Rotating black holes in brane worlds

Abstract

We study interaction of rotating higher dimensional black holes with a brane in space-times with large extra dimensions. We demonstrate that a rotating black hole attached to a brane can be stationary only if the null Killing vector generating the black hole horizon is tangent to the brane world-sheet. The characteristic time when a rotating black hole with the gravitational radius $r_0$ reaches this final stationary state is $T\sim r_0^{p-1}/(G\sigma)$, where $G$ is the higher dimensional gravitational coupling constant, $\sigma$ is the brane tension, and $p$ is the number of extra dimensions.