Global structure of five-dimensional fuzzballs
Global structure of five-dimensional fuzzballs
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五维毛球的全局结构
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2013
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N. Warner
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G. Gibbons;N. Warner;N. Warner;N. Warner
We describe and study families of BPS microstate geometries, namely, smooth, horizonless asymptotically flat solutions to supergravity. We examine these solutions from the perspective of earlier attempts to find solitonic solutions in gravity and show how the microstate geometries circumvent the earlier ‘no-go’ theorems. In particular, we re-analyze the Smarr formula and show how it must be modified in the presence of non-trivial second homology. This, combined with the supergravity Chern–Simons terms, allows the existence of rich classes of BPS, globally hyperbolic, asymptotically flat, microstate geometries whose spatial topology is the connected sum of N copies of S2 × S2 with a ‘point at infinity’ removed. These solutions also exhibit ‘evanescent ergo-regions,’ that is, the non-space-like Killing vector guaranteed by supersymmetry is time-like everywhere except on time-like hypersurfaces (ergo-surfaces) where the Killing vector becomes null. As a by-product of our work, we are able to resolve the puzzle of why some regular soliton solutions violate the BPS bound: their spacetimes do not admit a spin structure.