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The Anti-de Sitter Gott Universe: A Rotating BTZ Wormhole
Sören HolstHans-jürgen Matschullsubject
PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Spacetimemedia_common.quotation_subjectFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)General Relativity and Quantum CosmologyUniverseBlack holeGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyRotating black holeAnti-de Sitter spaceWormholeBTZ black holemedia_commonMathematical physicsClosed timelike curvedescription
Recently it has been shown that a 2+1 dimensional black hole can be created by a collapse of two colliding massless particles in otherwise empty anti-de Sitter space. Here we generalize this construction to the case of a non-zero impact parameter. The resulting spacetime, which may be regarded as a Gott universe in anti-de Sitter background, contains closed timelike curves. By treating these as singular we are able to interpret our solution as a rotating black hole, hence providing a link between the Gott universe and the BTZ black hole. When analyzing the spacetime we see how the full causal structure of the interior can be almost completely inferred just from considerations of the conformal boundary.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-05-10 |