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Constant Curvature Black Holes

Maximo Banados

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9703040

Abstract

Constant curvature black holes are constructed by identifying points in anti-de Sitter space. In n dimensions, the resulting topology is Rn-1 * S1, as opposed to the usual R2 * Sn-2 Schwarzschild black hole, and the corresponding causal structure is displayed by a (n-1)-dimensional picture, as opposed to the usual 2-dimensional Kruskal diagram. The five dimensional case, which can be embedded in a Chern-Simons supergravity theory, is analyzed in detail.

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