BLACK HOLES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS (BLACK STRINGS AND BLACK RINGS)

摘要

In the context of string theory and with the advent of brane-world theories higher dimensional black holes received much interest in recent years. This session on black holes in higher dimensions features predominantly contributions on new higher dimensional black hole solutions, including black rings, black strings, and multi black objects, and studies of their properties. Further topics are geodesics in such higher dimensional space-times, gravitational collapse, etc.