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Emparan R, Harmark T, Niarchos V, et al. World-volume effective theory for higher-dimensional black holes. Phys Rev Lett. 2009;102(19):191301doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191301.
Emparan, R., Harmark, T., Niarchos, V., & Obers, N. A. (2009). World-volume effective theory for higher-dimensional black holes. Physical review letters, 102(19), 191301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191301
Emparan, Roberto, et al. "World-volume effective theory for higher-dimensional black holes." Physical review letters vol. 102,19 (2009): 191301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191301
Emparan R, Harmark T, Niarchos V, Obers NA. World-volume effective theory for higher-dimensional black holes. Phys Rev Lett. 2009 May 15;102(19):191301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191301. Epub 2009 May 11. PMID: 19518938.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2009 May 15;102(19):191301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191301. Epub 2009 May 11.

World-volume effective theory for higher-dimensional black holes.

Physical review letters

Roberto Emparan, Troels Harmark, Vasilis Niarchos, Niels A Obers

Affiliations

  1. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain. [email protected]

PMID: 19518938 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191301

Abstract

We argue that the main feature behind novel properties of higher-dimensional black holes, compared to four-dimensional ones, is that their horizons can have two characteristic lengths of very different size. We develop a long-distance world-volume effective theory that captures the black hole dynamics at scales much larger than the short scale. In this limit the black hole is regarded as a blackfold: a black brane (possibly boosted locally) whose world volume spans a curved submanifold of the spacetime. This approach reveals black objects with novel horizon geometries and topologies more complex than the black ring, but more generally it provides a new organizing framework for the dynamics of higher-dimensional black holes.

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