
TL;DR
This paper constructs a new five-dimensional supersymmetric black lens solution with specific topological and physical properties, expanding the understanding of black hole solutions in higher-dimensional supergravity.
Contribution
It introduces the first explicit asymptotically flat black lens solution in five-dimensional supergravity with detailed topological and physical characteristics.
Findings
Horizon topology is lens space L(n,1).
Solution is regular outside and on the horizon.
Black lens carries multiple electric, magnetic, and angular momentum quantities.
Abstract
We construct an asymptotically flat, stationary and biaxisymmetric supersymmetric black lens solution in five-dimensional U(1)^3 supergravity. It is shown that the spatial cross section of the horizon is topologically the lens space of L(n,1), and the spacetime is regular on/outside the event horizon. The black lens carries (3n+2) physical quantities, three electric charges, two angular momenta and 3(n-1) magnetic fluxes.
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Multi-charged black lens
Shinya Tomizawa1111tomizawasny‘at’stf.teu.ac.jp
1 Department of Liberal Arts, Tokyo University of Technology, 5-23-22, Nishikamata, Otaku, Tokyo, 144-8535, Japan
Abstract
We construct an asymptotically flat, stationary and biaxisymmetric supersymmetric black lens solution in five-dimensional supergravity. It is shown that the spatial cross section of the horizon is topologically the lens space of , and the spacetime is regular on/outside the event horizon. The black lens carries physical quantities, three electric charges, two angular momenta and magnetic fluxes.
pacs:
04.50.+h 04.70.Bw
I Introduction
It was shown in Refs. Cai:2001su ; Galloway:2005mf ; Hollands:2007aj ; Hollands:2010qy that for an asymptotically flat, stationary and bi-axisymmetric five-dimensional black hole spacetime, the spatial cross section of each connected component of the event horizon must be topologically either a sphere , a ring , or lens spaces coprime integers) under the dominant energy condition. Concerned with the first two cases, one has already known the exact solutions in five-dimensional Einstein theory Myers:1986un ; Emparan:2001wn ; Pomeransky:2006bd . Nevertheless, as for the third case, a few authors Evslin:2008gx ; Chen:2008fa ; Tomizawa:2019acu attempted to construct an exact solution to the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein equation by using the inverse scattering method, but it turned out that the resultant solution always suffers from naked singularities.
The supersymmetric solutions provide us various useful information on the corresponding vacuum solutions. In particular, as for asymptotically flat supersymmetric black objects in the five-dimensional minimal supergravity (the constructions of these solutions are based on the scheme developed by Gauntlett et. al Gauntlett:2002nw ), the properties have been so far studied by many authors. For instance, the possible topologies of the supersymmetric black holes must be either a sphere , a ring , a torus or quotient thereof Reall:2002bh . For the spherical topology, Breckenridge et al. first found a supersymmetric black hole with equal angular momenta Breckenridge:1996is . The supersymmetric black ring with the topology has been found in Elvang:2004rt . Furthermore, recently, the asymptotically flat supersymmetric black hole solution with the special horizon topology of has been constructed by Kunduri and Lucietti Kunduri:2014kja (see Kunduri:2016xbo for the extension to supergravity). Subsequently, the black lens solution with more general lens space topologies was constructed in Tomizawa:2016kjh and it was also immediately generalized to the solution with multiple horizons in Tomizawa:2017suc .
In this paper, we generalize the asymptotically flat supersymmetric black lens solution Tomizawa:2016kjh with the horizon topology of in the five-dimensional minimal supergravity to the supersymmetric solution in the five-dimensional supergravity, whereas this is also the extension of the black lens solution Kunduri:2016xbo with the horizon topology to the more general lens spaces . Our strategy to construct such a solution is to consider the Gibbons-Hawking space as a hyper-Kähler base space and allow the harmonic functions to have point sources with appropriate coefficients. By imposing suitable boundary conditions on the solution, we consider the configuration of the point sources in which the cross section of the horizon becomes and the spatial infinity becomes . The black lens spacetime possesses a nontrivial domain of outer communication by the existence of nontrivial 2-cycles supported by magnetic fluxes outside the horizon. One of these 2-cycles has disk topology , whereas the others have the topology of .
We organize the remaining sections of this paper as follows. In Sec. II, we present the the supersymmetric solution of black lenses admitting stationarity and bi-axisymmetry in the five-dimensional supergravity. In Sec. III, we impose the boundary conditions on the solution in order that the spacetime is asymptotically flat, has no curvature/conical singularities in the domain of outer communication and no orbifold/ Dirac-Misner string singularities on the axis. In Sec. IV, we compute the conserved charges and discuss the physical aspects of such a black lens. In Sec. IV, we devote ourselves to the summary and discussion on our results.
II Black lens solution
In the bosonic sector of the five-dimensional supergravity, the supersymmetric solution can be written as a timelike fiber bundle over a hyper Kähler space Gauntlett:2004qy . In this work, we choose such a space as the Gibbons-Hawking space, whose metric can be written in spherical polar coordinates on as
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where is a harmonic function on and denotes the Hodge duarity on . When we assume that is also a Killing vector for the five-dimensional metric, the metric, gauge potentials of Maxwell fields and scalar fields with the constraint for the supersymmetric solutions are expressed as
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where the functions , and -forms are given by
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with
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, and are the harmonic functions on . We assume that the harmonic functions , , and have point sources at ( for , ) on as
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where . It can be shown from Eqs.(1), (11) and (9) that the -forms () are explicitly expressed as
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where is a constant and .
III Boundary conditions
We require that (i) the spacetime is asymptotically flat at infinity , (ii) the point, , at which the harmonic functions diverge, corresponds to a smooth degenerate Killing horizon whose spatial topology is the lens space of , and (iii) the remaining points of the harmonic functions behave as regular points. We also demand the regularity conditions that there exist no curvature singularities, no conical singularities and no Dirac-Misner string singularities. In addition, we impose the absence of closed timelike curves (CTCs) in the domain of outer communication. In order that the parameters satisfy all of these boundary conditions, we will derive the constraint equations in what follows.
III.1 Infinity
For , the function and -form behave, respectively, as
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The asymptotic flatness requires that approaches to and vanishes at infinity in the given coordinate system. Therefore, we impose the following conditions on the parameters
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In terms of the five-dimensional radial coordinate , for the metric is asymptotically approximated as
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which coincides with the metric of Minkowski spacetime written in terms of the Euler angles. The regularity of the metric at infinity demands the range of the coordinates , , and the identification of and .
III.2 Horizon
To see that the point denotes a Killing horizon with the topology of the lens space of , let us introduce new spherical polar coordinates such that becomes an origin in of the Gibbons-Hawking space. Near the origin , the functions and are approximated as
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where we have defined the constants and , respectively, by
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with
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Moreover, to eliminate the apparent divergence of the metric at , let us use new coordinates defined by
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where
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It is shown from that is a null Killing horizon. We can obtain the near-horizon geometry by putting and taking the limit as
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where
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As expected, this is locally isometric to the near-horizon geometry of the BMPV black hole. The metric of the cross section of the event horizon with const. surfaces gives
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which is the metric of the squashed lens space . To remove CTCs near the horizon, we must impose
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Note that it is sufficient to impose the second inequality only, namely,
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III.3 ()
Next, we introduce new spherical polar coordinates such that becomes an origin in of the Gibbons-Hawking space. Near the points (), the functions and behaves, respectively, as
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where the constants and are given by
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The -forms and are approximated, respectively, as
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where
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To eliminate the divergence at the points () of the function and , we need impose the following conditions on the parameters
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This immediately leads to the important constraint
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Using these conditions and new coordinates defined by
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we find that near the points the metric is locally isometric to the Minkowski metric
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However, the existence of and in the metric yields CTCs around the origin (). Therefore, we must require
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where it should be noted that the former automatically guarantees the latter. Moreover, from Eq.(50), we must require , which can be written as
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III.4 Axis
On in the Gibbons-Hawking space (Eq. (2)), let us introduce the Cartesian coordinates , which are defined by .
First, we show that there exist no Dirac-Misner string singularities on the -axis of (i.e., ) in the Gibbons-Hawking space. To do so, it is sufficient to show on the -axis. The -axis is split into the intervals as , and . On the -axis, the 1-form can be written in the form
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where we have used Eq. (20). On , vanishes since
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where we have used Eq. (21). For , we find
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where we have used the fact that is constant on in the second equality and Eq. (43) in the fourth equality, respectively. Furthermore, we have used Eq. (49) and Eq. (52) in the last equality. Thus, it has been shown that holds at each interval, which proves that no Dirac-Misner string pathologies exist throughout the spacetime.
Next, we show that there exist no orbifold singularities on the -axis. On , can be written as
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whereas on we have
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Let us use the coordinate basis vectors of periodicity, which are defined by and . We can show that the Killing vector vanishes on each interval. Therefore, the rod structure is given by
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on , the Killing vector vanishes,
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on each (), the Killing vector vanishes,
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on , the Killing vector vanishes.
From these, we can observe that the Killing vectors on the intervals satisfy
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with
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Eq. (63) means that there exist no orbifold singularities at adjacent intervals , and Eq. (64) shows that the spatial topology of the horizon is the lens space .
IV Physical properties
Let us count the number of physical degree of freedom. First, note that there exists a gauge freedom of redefining harmonic functions
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where are three arbitrary constants. Under these transformations, remain invariant. The 1-forms transforms as , which means merely the gauge transformation since . Therefore, the transformations (65) makes the solution invariant. This gauge invariance enables us to eliminate one term which appears in and to simplify the form of the solution. We can use this gauge invariance to put, for instance,
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The regularity of the metric at each boundary has required the boundary conditions (19)-(21), (47)-(48), (52). From the gauge freedom of and (66), these conditions reduce the number of the independent parameters that appear in the solution from to , Furthermore, the absence of CTCs demands that these should satisfy the inequalities (37) and (53).
We compute the conserved charges of the black lens. The Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) mass, the electric charges and two ADM angular momenta are written as
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As expected, the mass saturates the Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) bound . The magnetic fluxes through are defined as , which are computed as
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V Summary
In this paper, we have generalized the asymptotically flat supersymmetric black lens solution with the horizon topology of in the five-dimensional minimal supergravity Tomizawa:2016kjh to the five-dimensional supergravity, which also corresponds to the extension of the black lens solution with the lens space to the black lens solution with the more genera lens spaces . We have shown that the black lens with the horizon topology of includes parameters, which must obey inequalities. We have computed physical charges, three electric charges (the sum is equal to the mass, and hence it follows that the Bogomol’ny bound is saturated), two angular momenta , and magnetic fluxes , which are subject to a constraint.
In this work, we have impose the boundary conditions such that the point source in the harmonic functions corresponds to the Killing horizon and the other are simply regular points like an origin of Minkowski spacetime. It may be also interesting to consider the different boundary conditions, such that is a Killing horizon and the other are regular points, since such a solution is expected to have physically different properties (see Ref. Kunduri:2014kja for the corresponding examples in five-dimensional minimal supergravity). Furthermore, it may be straightforward to generalize the present solution to five-dimensional supergravity. These issues deserve further study.
Acknowledgements.
This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Grant Number 17K05452) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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