Abstract
We study the Lorentzian analogues of the squashed 3-sphere, namely, (2+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space squashed or stretched along fibres that are either spacelike or timelike. The causal structure and the property of being an Einstein–Weyl space depend critically on whether we squash or stretch. We argue that squashing and stretching completely destroy the conformal boundary of the unsquashed spacetime. As a physical application we observe that the near horizon geometry of the extremal Kerr black hole, at constant Boyer–Lindquist latitude, is anti-de Sitter space squashed along compactified spacelike fibres.
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