96 citations · 100 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
gr-qc2008★ 4 cited
On Universality of Ergoregion Mergers
Henriette Elvang, Pau Figueras, Gary T. Horowitz +2
We study mergers of ergoregions in -dimensional vacuum gravity. At the merger point, where the ergosurfaces bounding each ergoregion just touch, solutions exhibit universal be…
hep-th2008★ 96 cited
Extremal vacuum black holes in higher dimensions
Pau Figueras, Hari K Kunduri, James Lucietti +1
We consider extremal black hole solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations in dimensions greater than five. We prove that the near-horizon geometry of any such black hole must poss…