1995/09/20 by Gary T. Horowitz, Gary Horowitz, Ashoke Sen · 76 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Angular momentum #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometry #Gravitational singularity #Heterotic string theory #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Naked singularity #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Singularity #String (physics) #Torus #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.53.808
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 53(2), 808-815 (American Physical Society) · 13 pages, no figures
arxiv created 1995/09/20 · openalex publication_date 1996/01/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We construct and study the electrically charged, rotating black hole solution in heterotic string theory compactified on a (10-D)-dimensional torus. This black hole is characterized by its mass, angular momentum, and a (36-2D)-dimensional electric charge vector. One of the features of this solution is that for D>5 its extremal limit saturates the Bogomol'nyi bound. This is in contrast with the D=4 case where the rotating black hole solution develops a naked singularity before the Bogomol'nyi bound is reached. The extremal black holes can be superposed, and by taking a periodic array in D>5, one obtains effectively four-dimensional solutions without naked singularities. \textcopyright 1996 The American Physical Society.