dc.contributor.advisor | Pope, Christopher | |
dc.creator | Chen, Wei | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-15T00:02:57Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-16T00:24:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-15T00:02:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-16T00:24:43Z | |
dc.date.created | 2007-12 | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-05-15 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2109 | |
dc.description.abstract | With the advent of supergravity and superstring theory, it is of great importance
to study higher-dimensional solutions to the Einstein equations. In this dissertation,
we study the higher dimensional Kerr-AdS metrics, and show how they admit further
generalisations in which additional NUT-type parameters are introduced.
The choice of coordinates in four dimensions that leads to the natural inclusion
of a NUT parameter in the Kerr-AdS solution is rather well known. An important
feature of this coordinate system is that the radial variable and the latitude variable
are placed on a very symmetrical footing. The NUT generalisations of the highdimensional
Kerr-AdS metrics obtained in this dissertation work in a very similar way.
We first consider the Kerr-AdS metrics specialised to cohomogeneity 2 by appropriate
restrictions on their rotation parameters. A latitude coordinate is introduced in such
a way that it, and the radial variable, appeared in a very symmetrical way. The
inclusion of a NUT charge is a natural result of this parametrisation. This procedure
is then applied to the general D dimensional Kerr-AdS metrics with cohomogeneity
[D/2]. The metrics depend on the radial coordinate r and [D/2] latitude variables µi
that are subject to the constraint Ei µ2i
= 1. We find a coordinate reparameterisation
in which the µi variables are replaced by [D/2]−1 unconstrained coordinates yα, and
put the coordinates r and yα on a parallel footing in the metrics, leading to an
immediate introduction of ([D/2]−1) NUT parameters. This gives the most general Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics in D dimensions.
We discuss some remarkable properties of the new Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics. We
show that the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations are separable in Kerr-
NUT-AdS metrics with cohomogeneity 2. We also demonstrate that the general
cohomogeneity-n Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics can be written in multi-Kerr-Schild form.
Lastly, We study the BPS limits of the Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics. After Euclideanisation,
we obtain new families of Einstein-Sassaki metrics in odd dimensions and
Ricci-flat metrics in even dimensions. We also discuss their applications in String
theory. | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.relation.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85873 | |
dc.subject | Kerr-NUT-AdS | en |
dc.title | Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics and string theory | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | Physics | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Arnowitt, Richard | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fulling, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Sezgin, Ergin | |
dc.type.genre | Electronic Dissertation | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | en |