Marcus Khuri, Gilbert Weinstein, Sumio Yamada
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, Dec 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
An affirmative answer is given to a conjecture of Myers concerning the
existence of 5-dimensional regular static vacuum solutions that balance an
infinite number of black holes, which have Kasner asymptotics. A variety of
examples are constructed, having different combinations of ring $S^1\times S^2$
and sphere $S^3$ cross-sectional horizon topologies. Furthermore, we show the
existence of 5-dimensional vacuum solitons with Kasner asymptotics. These are
regular static space-periodic vacuum spacetimes devoid of black holes.
Consequently, we also obtain new examples of complete Riemannian manifolds of
nonnegative Ricci curvature in dimension 4, and zero Ricci curvature in
dimension 5, having arbitrarily large as well as infinite second Betti number.