Abstract
We show that the four-dimensional extreme dilaton black hole with dilaton\ncoupling constant $a= \\sqrt{p/(p+2)}$ can be interpreted as a {\\it completely\nnon-singular}, non-dilatonic, black $p$-brane in $(4+p)$ dimensions provided\nthat $p$ is {\\it odd}. Similar results are obtained for multi-black holes and\ndilatonic extended objects in higher spacetime dimensions. The non-singular\nblack $p$-brane solutions include the self-dual three brane of ten-dimensional\nN=2B supergravity and a multi-fivebrane solution of eleven-dimensional\nsupergravity. In the case of a supersymmetric non-dilatonic $p$-brane solution\nof a supergravity theory, we show that it saturates a bound on the energy per\nunit $p$-volume.\n
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PhysicsSupergravityDilatonBraneBlack hole (networking)Mathematical physicsBlack braneGravitational singularityHypersurfaceSpacetimeSingularityTheoretical physicsExtremal black holeSupersymmetryQuantum mechanicsGeometry
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- 12
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G. W. Gibbons,
Gary T. Horowitz,
Paul Townsend
(1995).
Higher-dimensional resolution of dilatonic black-hole singularities.
Classical and Quantum Gravity
, 12
(2)
, 297-317.
https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/12/2/004
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- 10.1088/0264-9381/12/2/004