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Phys. Rev. D 65, 084040 (2002) [5 pages]

New black holes in the brane world?

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Roberto Casadio*, Alessandro Fabbri, and Lorenzo Mazzacurati
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna and I.N.F.N., Sezione di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Received 28 November 2001; published 9 April 2002

It is known that the Einstein field equations in five dimensions admit more general spherically symmetric black holes on the brane than four-dimensional general relativity. We propose two families of analytic solutions (with gtt-grr-1), parametrized by the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner mass and the parametrized post-Newtonian parameter β, which reduce to Schwarzschild for β=1. Agreement with observations requires |β-1||η|≪1. The sign of η plays a key role in the global causal structure, separating metrics which behave like Schwarzschild (η<0) from those similar to Reissner-Nordström spare-time (η>0). In the latter case, we find a family of black hole space-times completely regular.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.084040
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.084040
PACS:
04.50.+h, 04.70.Bw, 11.10.Kk

*Email address: casadio@bo.infn.it

Email address: fabbria@bo.infn.it

Email address: mazzacurati@bo.infn.it