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Pair Creation of Dilaton Black Holes

arXiv:hep-th/9309075 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2909

Abstract

We consider dilaton gravity theories in four spacetime dimensions parametrised by a constant , which controls the dilaton coupling, and construct new exact solutions. We first generalise the C-metric of Einstein-Maxwell theory () to solutions corresponding to oppositely charged dilaton black holes undergoing uniform acceleration for general . We next develop a solution generating technique which allows us to ``embed" the dilaton C-metrics in magnetic dilaton Melvin backgrounds, thus generalising the Ernst metric of Einstein-Maxwell theory. By adjusting the parameters appropriately, it is possible to eliminate the nodal singularities of the dilaton C-metrics. For (but not for ), it is possible to further restrict the parameters so that the dilaton Ernst solutions have a smooth euclidean section with topology , corresponding to instantons describing the pair production of dilaton black holes in a magnetic field. A different restriction on the parameters leads to smooth instantons for all values of with topology .

22 pages, EFI-93-51, FERMILAB-Pub-93/272-A, UMHEP-393. (Asymptotics of Ernst solutions clarified, typos repaired)

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