Black holes on cylinders are not algebraically special

Published 17 September 2002 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Pieter-Jan De Smet 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 4877 DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/19/19/307

0264-9381/19/19/4877

Abstract

We give a Petrov classification for five-dimensional metrics. We give an almost complete classification of Ricci-flat metrics that are static, have an SO(3) isometry group and have Petrov type 22. We use this classification to look for the metric of a black hole on a cylinder, i.e., a black hole with asymptotic geometry four-dimensional Minkowski space times a circle. Although a black string wrapped around the S1 and the five-dimensional black hole are both algebraically special, it turns out that the black hole on a cylinder is not.

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10.1088/0264-9381/19/19/307