Accelerating black holes and spinning spindles
Pietro Ferrero (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom); Jerome P. Gauntlett (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom); Juan Manuel Pérez Ipiña (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom); Dario Martelli (Arnold–Regge Center, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy, Dipartimento di Matematica “Giuseppe Peano,” Università di Torino, Via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy, INFN, Sezione di Torino & Arnold–Regge Center, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy); James Sparks (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom)
We study solutions in the Plebański–Demiański family which describe an accelerating, rotating, and dyonically charged black hole in . These are solutions of Einstein-Maxwell theory with a negative cosmological constant and hence minimal gauged supergravity. It is well known that when the acceleration is nonvanishing the black hole metrics have conical singularities. By uplifting the solutions to supergravity using a regular Sasaki-Einstein seven-manifold, , we show how the free parameters can be chosen to eliminate the conical singularities. Topologically, the solutions incorporate an fibration over a two-dimensional weighted projective space, , also known as a spindle, which is labeled by two integers that determine the conical singularities of the metrics. We also discuss the supersymmetric and extremal limit and show that the near horizon limit gives rise to a new family of regular supersymmetric solutions of supergravity, which generalize a known family by the addition of a rotation parameter. We calculate the entropy of these black holes and argue that it should be possible to derive this from certain , quiver gauge theories compactified on a spinning spindle with the appropriate magnetic flux.