2008/08/31 by Vasilis Niarchos, VASILIS NIARCHOS
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732308028387
published as Mod.Phys.Lett.A23:2625-2643,2008 · 21 pages, 9 figures. Invited review for Modern Physics Letters A; v2 references added
arxiv created 2008/08/31 · openalex publication_date 2008/10/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review some of the most striking properties of the phase diagrams of higher dimensional black holes in pure gravity. We focus on static black hole solutions with Kaluza–Klein asymptotics and stationary black hole solutions in flat Minkowski space. Both cases exhibit a rich pattern of interconnected phases and merger points with topology changing transitions. In the first case, the phase diagram includes uniform and non-uniform black strings, localized black holes and sequences of Kaluza–Klein bubbles. In the latter case, it includes Myers–Perry black holes, black rings, black saturns and pinched black holes.