Ernst equation and spheroidal coordinates with a cosmological constant term

Abstract

We discuss solution generating techniques treating stationary and axially symmetric metrics in the presence of a cosmological constant. Using the recently found extended form of Ernst's complex equation, which takes into account the cosmological constant term, we propose an extension of spheroidal coordinates adapted to asymptotically de-Sitter and anti de-Sitter static spacetimes. In the absence of a cosmological constant we show in addition that any higher dimensional metric parametrised by a single angular momentum can be given by a 4 dimensional solution and Weyl potentials parametrising the extra Killing directions. We explicitly show how a stationary, and a static axially symmetric spacetime solution in 4 dimensions, can be {\it added} together to give a 5 dimensional stationary and axisymmetric solution.

9 pages, no figures, some additional results to gr-qc/0610091. Prepared for 12th Conference on Recent Developments in Gravity (NEB XII), Nafplio, Greece, 29 Jun - 2 Jul 2006

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