Phys. Rev. D 63, 024006 (2000) [6 pages]

Uniformly accelerating black holes in a de Sitter universe

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J. Podolský *
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 18000 Prague 8, Czech Republic

J. B. Griffiths
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom

Received 11 September 2000; published 14 December 2000

A class of exact solutions of Einstein’s equations is analyzed which describes uniformly accelerating charged black holes in an asymptotically de Sitter universe. This is a generalization of the C metric which includes a cosmological constant. The physical interpretation of the solutions is facilitated by the introduction of a new coordinate system for de Sitter space which is adapted to accelerating observers in this background. The solutions considered reduce to this form of the de Sitter metric when the mass and charge of the black holes vanish.


©2000 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v63/e024006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.024006
PACS: 04.20.Jb, 04.30.Nk

* Email address: podolsky@mbox.troja.mff.cuni.cz
Email address: j.b.griffiths@lboro.ac.uk

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