nLab black string

Contents

Context

String theory

Gravity

gravity, supergravity

Formalism

Definition

Einstein-Hilbert action, Einstein's equations, general relativity
- first-order formulation of gravity, D'Auria-Fre formulation of supergravity
- gravity as a BF-theory, Plebanski formulation of gravity, teleparallel gravity

Spacetime configurations

Properties

Spacetimes

black hole spacetimes	vanishing angular momentum	positive angular momentum
vanishing charge	Schwarzschild spacetime	Kerr spacetime
positive charge	Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime	Kerr-Newman spacetime

Quantum theory

quantum gravity
- graviton, gravitino
- string theory

Contents

Idea
Related concepts
References

General
From wrapped M5-branes

Idea

A black brane of one spatial dimension.

Related concepts

References

General

See also

Wikipedia, black string

From wrapped M5-branes

On black strings in D=5 gravity/D=5 supergravity from M5-branes wrapped on 4-manifolds:

David Kastor, Section 3 of: From wrapped M-branes to Calabi-Yau black holes and strings, JHEP 0307 (2003) 040 (arXiv:hep-th/0305261)

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