We discuss some aspects of higher-dimensional gravitational solitons and kinks, including in particular their stability. We illustrate our discussion with the examples of (non-BPS) higher-dimensional Taub-NUT solutions as the spatial metrics in (6 + 1) and (8 + 1) dimensions. We find them to be stable against small but non-infinitesimal disturbances, but unstable against large ones, which can l...

Recent work has demonstrated an attractor mechanism for extremal rotating black holes subject to the assumption of a near-horizon SO(2, 1) symmetry. We prove the existence of this symmetry for any extremal black hole with the same number of rotational symmetries as known four and five dimensional solutions (including black rings). The result is valid for a general two-derivative theory of gravi...

We discuss some aspects of higher-dimensional gravitational solitons and kinks, including in particular their stability. We illustrate our discussion with the examples of (non-BPS) higher-dimensional Taub-NUT solutions as the spatial metrics in (6 + 1) and (8 + 1) dimensions. We find them to be stable against small but non-infinitesimal disturbances, but unstable against large ones, which can l...

In the large coupling regime of the 5-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–Chern–Simons theory, charged and rotating cohomogeneity-1 black holes form sequences of extremal and non-extremal radially excited configurations. These asymptotically global Anti-de Sitter (AdS5) black holes form a discrete set of solutions, characterised by the vanishing of the total angular momenta, or the horizon angular vel...

We find general first-order equations for G 2 metrics of cohomogeneity one with S 3 × S 3 principal orbits. These reduce in two special cases to previously-known systems of first-order equations that describe regular asymptotically locally conical (ALC) metrics B 7 and D 7 , which have weak-coupling limits that are S 1 times the deformed conifold and the resolved conifold respectively. Our more...

Any sphere S admits a metric of constant sectional curvature. These canonical metrics are homogeneous and Einstein, that is the Ricci curvature is a constant multiple of the metric. The spheres S, m > 1 are known to have another Sp(m + 1)-homogeneous Einstein metric discovered by Jensen [Jen73]. In addition, S has a third Spin(9)-invariant homogeneous Einstein metric discovered by Bourguignon a...

In this paper, we consider a closed Riemannian manifold $$M^{n+1}$$ with dimension $$3\le n+1\le 7$$ , and compact Lie group G acting as isometries on M cohomogeneity at least 3. After adapting the Almgren–Pitts min–max theory to G-equivariant version, show existence of non-trivial smooth embedded G-invariant minimal hypersurface $$\Sigma \subset M$$ provided that union non-principal orbits for...