Horizons and plane waves: A review

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2003-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311053v2

Mod.Phys.Lett. A18 (2003) 2699-2712

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

15 pages, harvmac. Review to appear in Modern Physics Letters A v2: added references

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217732303012428

We review the attempts to construct black hole/string solutions in asymptotically plane wave spacetimes. First, we demonstrate that geometries admitting a covariantly constant null Killing vector cannot admit event horizons, which implies that pp-waves can't describe black holes. However, relaxing the symmetry requirements allows us to generate solutions which do possess regular event horizons while retaining the requisite asymptotic properties. In particular, we present two solution generating techniques and use them to construct asymptotically plane wave black string/brane geometries.

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