HYPER-CHARGED VORTICES AND STRINGS WITH SIGNATURE CHANGE HORIZON

Abstract

We show that self-dual Nielsen-Olesen (NO) vortices in three dimensions give rise to a class of exact solutions when coupled to Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton gravity obeying the Majumdar-Papapetrou (MP) relation between gravitational and Maxwell couplings, provided certain types of Chern-Simons interactions are present. The metric may be solved explicitly in terms of the NO vortex function and becomes degenerate at scales [Formula: see text] where lS is the vortex core size and lp the Planck length. For typical lS≥104lp the horizon is thus pushed out to exponentially large scales. In the intermediate asymptotic region (IAR) lS≪r≪rH there is a logarithmic deviation of the metric from the flat metric and of the electric field from that of a point charge (which makes it decrease slower than r−1: hence the prefix hyper). In the IAR, the ADM energy and charge integrals increase logarithmically with the distance from the core region and finally diverge at the signature change horizon. String solutions in 4+p dimensions are obtained by replacing the Maxwell field with an antisymmetric tensor field (of rank 2+p) and have essentially similar properties with [Formula: see text] and with the antisymmetric charge playing the role of the topological electric charge.