Playing with Black Strings

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent discoveries of new stable black string solutions that lack translational symmetry, including both neutral and charged cases, highlighting their properties, explicit solutions, and open questions.

Contribution

It introduces a large class of stable black strings without translational invariance, expanding understanding of black string solutions.

Findings

Existence of stable, non-translationally invariant black strings

Properties of these new solutions

Open questions about explicit solutions and stability

Abstract

We review recent work showing that there exists a large class of new stable black strings which are not translationally invariant. Both neutral and charged black strings are considered. The discussion includes known properties of these new solutions, attempts to find them explicitly, and a list of open questions.