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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 16, 2013
General nonextremal rotating black holes in minimal five-dimensional gauged supergravity
1George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843, USA.
Abstract:
We construct the general solution for nonextremal charged rotating black holes in five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity. They are characterized by four nontrivial parameters: namely, the mass, the charge, and the two independent rotation parameters. The metrics in general describe regular rotating black holes, providing the parameters lie in appropriate ranges so that naked singularities and closed timelike curves (CTCs) are avoided. We calculate the conserved energy, angular momenta, and charge for the solutions, and show how supersymmetric solutions arise in a Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield limit. These have naked CTCs in general, but for special choices of the parameters we obtain new regular supersymmetric black holes or smooth topological solitons.
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