On black strings & branes in Lovelock gravity

David Kastor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Robert Mann

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This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/04/048/

Abstract

It is well known that black strings and branes may be constructed in pure Einstein gravity simply by adding flat directions to a vacuum black hole solution. A similar construction holds in the presence of a cosmological constant. While these constructions fail in general Lovelock theories, we show that they carry over straightforwardly within a class of Lovelock gravity theories that have (locally) unique constant curvature vacua.