Higher dimensional black holes and supersymmetry
- 25 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 68 (2) , 024024
Abstract
It has recently been shown that the uniqueness theorem for stationary black holes cannot be extended to five dimensions. However, uniqueness is an important assumption of the string theory black hole entropy calculations. This paper justifies this assumption by proving a uniqueness theorem for supersymmetric black holes in five dimensions. Some remarks concerning general properties of nonsupersymmetric higher dimensional black holes are made. It is conjectured that there exist new families of stationary higher dimensional black hole solutions with fewer symmetries than any known solution.Keywords
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