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most citedVacua and Exact Solutions in Lower- Limits of EGB

56 citations · 227 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

hep-th2026

Schwarzschild Black Hole in Uniform Magnetic Field in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Theories

Liang Ma, Peng-Yu Wu, H. Lu

We obtain the Kerr black hole in an external uniform magnetic field in the Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory via a standard solution-generating technique. Using this as our starting point,…

gr-qc2026

New Rotating Black Hole in Electromagnetic Fields: Cosmological Horizon without Cosmological Constant

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We obtain a new electrovacuum and related background spacetime that contains a cosmological horizon supported entirely by the electromagnetic field. The local solution belongs to t…

gr-qc2026

Global Distinctions Between New Electrovacuum and Kundt Class

Liang Ma, H. Lu

It was observed [2606.30426] that our recently constructed electrovacuum [2606.23782], supported by electromagnetic fields, can be locally transformed to a special Petrov type D so…

gr-qc2026

Demagnetizing KBR and New Ricci-flat Rotating Metric

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We construct a new Ricci-flat metric by demagnetizing the recently reported Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (KBR) solution. The metric is a deformation of the Kerr metric characterized by a…

hep-th2025

Quadratic Curvature Correction to 5D Myers-Perry Metric

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We consider quadratic curvature perturbation to the Myers-Perry black hole in five dimensions at the linear level in the coupling constant. The solution can then be solved order by…

hep-th2025

Odd-dimensional Extremal Rotating Black Holes with All Equal Angular Momenta and Small Electric Charges

Qi-Yuan Mao, H. Lu

We consider Einstein-Maxwell gravity in diverse dimensions and construct the small charge perturbation to the extremal rotating black holes with all equal angular momenta in odd $D…

hep-th2025

Black Hole Thermodynamics without Black Hole Solutions

Meng-Nan Yang, Guan-Yi Lu, H. Lu

We consider the string-theory inspired Einstein-Maxwell-Maxwell-dilaton theory (EMMD) and show that we can derive the complete set of thermodynamic quantities of charged black hole…

hep-th2025

Instanton Moduli, Topology and the Bosonic/Heterotic String Origins

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We construct new supersymmetric NS(-1)-branes supported by the 't Hooft instantons in , supergravity. We show that although the magnetic 3-for…

hep-th2025

New BPS States from Bosonic/Heterotic Duality

Kai-Peng Lu, H. Lu, Liang Ma

In this paper, we consider the recently proposed bosonic/heterotic duality that relates the heterotic superstrings to the noncritical bosonic string. Although the latter is nonsupe…

gr-qc2025

Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in Gedanken Experiments at All Orders

Kai-Peng Lu, Peng-Yu Wu, H. Lu

We present a systematic analysis of the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) through Gedankenexperiments involving black hole perturbations induced by test particles. Our appro…

hep-th2025

Consistent Warped Reduction of Heterotic Supergravity

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We find a curious duality between the bosonic sector of heterotic supergravity and the noncritical bosonic string with conformal anomaly. This allows us to map the Mink$_4\times S^…

hep-th2024★ 8 cited

Leading Higher Derivative Corrections to Multipole Moments of Kerr-Newman Black Hole

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We study the (leading) 4-derivative corrections, including both parity even and odd terms, to electrically-charged Kerr-Newman black holes. The linear perturbative equations are th…

gr-qc2024

Charging the Love numbers: Charged scalar response coefficients of Kerr-Newman black holes

Liang Ma, Ze-Hua Wu, Yi Pang +1

We study the electrically-charged massless scalar response to the general Kerr-Newman black hole and obtain the exact (complex) response coefficients, whose real parts are the Love…

hep-th2024

A Space/Time Interchange Symmetry of Rotating AdS Black Holes in General Dimensions

Si-Yue Lu, Peng Zhao, H. Lu

We revisit the previously known local inversion symmetry of the five-dimensional Kerr-AdS metric that relates the over-rotating black hole to the under-rotating one and reinterpret…

hep-th2024★ 5 cited

Boosted Rotating Dyonic Strings in Salam-Sezgin Model

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We show that the bosonic sector of the Salam-Sezgin gauged supergravity model possesses a -duality symmetry upon a circle reduction to . We then construct a…

hep-th2023★ 5 cited

Dyonic Black Strings and the Charge Lattice in Salam-Sezgin model

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We obtain a class of dyonic black string solutions in 6D Salam-Sezgin model. We then calculate various thermodynamic quantities associated with this solution. Interestingly, for th…

hep-th2023★ 34 cited

Higher derivative contributions to black hole thermodynamics at NNLO

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

In an effective theory of gravity, thermodynamic quantities of black holes receive corrections from the infinite series of higher derivative terms. At the next to leading order, th…

hep-th2022★ 16 cited

Improved Wald formalism and First Law of Dyonic Black Strings with Mixed Chern-Simons Terms

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We study the first law of thermodynamics of dyonic black strings carrying a linear momentum in type IIA string theory compactified on K3 with leading order corrections. The lo…

hep-th2021

-corrections to Near Extremal Dyonic Strings and Weak Gravity Conjecture

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lü

We construct non-extremal dyonic string solutions in 6D minimal supergravity where the leading higher derivative corrections arise from either the type IIA string theory compactifi…

hep-th2021★ 8 cited

Hidden Relations of Central Charges and OPEs in Holographic CFT

Yue-Zhou Li, H. Lu, Liang Ma

It is known that the central charges in four-dimensional CFTs are linear combinations of the three independent OPE coefficients of the stress-tensor three-point function. I…

hep-th2020★ 1 cited

A Correspondence between Ricci-flat Kerr and Kaluza-Klein AdS Black Hole

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We establish an explicit correspondence of Einstein gravity on the squashed spheres that are the bundles over to the Kaluza-Klein AdS gravity on the tori. Th…

hep-th2020★ 25 cited

Rotating Black Holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity: Mass and Angular Momentum in Extremality

Liang Ma, Yue-Zhou Li, H. Lu

We consider perturbative solutions in Einstein gravity with higher-derivative extensions and address some subtle issues of taking extremal limit. As a concrete new result, we const…

gr-qc2020★ 56 cited

Vacua and Exact Solutions in Lower- Limits of EGB

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We consider the action principles that are the lower dimensional limits of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity {\it via} the Kaluza-Klein route. We study the vacua and obtain some ex…

gr-qc2020★ 25 cited

Universal bounds on the size of a black hole

Run-Qiu Yang, H. Lu

For static black holes in Einstein gravity, if matter fields satisfy a few general conditions, we conjecture that three characteristic parameters about the spatial size of black ho…