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Black objects in a five-dimensional swirling spacetime

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Adriano Viganò

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 29 Sep 2026 · 40 references

Pith's verdict: Real new 5D exact solutions with a sound analytic Myers-Parry section, but the ring-uniqueness claim is argued from plots and is stronger than the evidence: the stress-test note lands on the R-direction and regime gaps.

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CitationAdriano Vigan\`o. "Black objects in a five-dimensional swirling spacetime." arXiv:2609.37511 (2026). https://pith.science/paper/WCJKH475
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Five-dimensional swirling universe tames the black ring: the background's rotation drags both black-hole and black-ring solutions into conical-singularity-free regular spacetimes, and its presence restores a uniqueness the asymptotically…

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The paper extends the four-dimensional swirling universe (a spacetime whose curvature drags observers around like a whirlpool) to five dimensions, and embeds two known black objects into it: the Myers–Perry black hole and the rotating black ring. Its central claim is that the swirling background renders both solutions free of conical singularities and regular outside the horizon — a contrast with the four-dimensional case, where swirling Kerr carries conical defects. A second, more surprising claim is that the swirling parameter restores uniqueness to the rotating black ring: where the asymptotically flat ring admits two distinct configurations with the same mass and angular momentum, the swirling ring admits only one. If correct, this offers a concrete instance in which a nontrivial background, rather than a uniqueness theorem, lifts the infamous non-uniqueness of higher-dimensional black holes.

What carries the argument

The five-dimensional Ernst equation with the gravitational Ernst potential E = f + iχ, restricted to stationary axisymmetric Weyl-type metrics with three commuting Killing vectors. Its exact Ehlers map E′ = E/(1 + ijE) is an exact symmetry of the vacuum Einstein equations, so applying it to a seed solution produces a new solution; the double-Wick rotation connecting the two metric forms leaves the Ernst potential unchanged, so the same transformation works for the rotating ansatz. This Ehlers map is the single mechanism that turns Minkowski spacetime into the swirling universe (3.5) and deforms both the Myers–Perry hole and the black ring, with the swirling parameter j coupling to the seed rotation parameters in the mass, angular momentum, and periodicities.

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Starting from the five-dimensional Ernst equation and its exact Ehlers symmetry, the paper generates a five-dimensional swirling universe and maps the Myers–Perry black hole and the rotating black ring into it. For the Myers–Perry case, the metric, surface gravity, horizon area, and Komar charges are all computed analytically, and a local Smarr law is confirmed; conical regularity is achieved by assigning the azimuthal periodicity Δψ = 2π(1 + ajm)², which reduces to 2π when any of a, j, m vanishes. For the black ring, regularity fixes periodicities for ψ and φ and requires a numerically located parameter λc solving Eq. (5.19); the paper assumes this choice has been made and computes the mass and angular momentum numerically. The load-bearing discovery is that the ratio 27π/32 · J_H²/M_H³ as a function of ν, which for the asymptotically flat ring is double-valued and encodes its non-uniqueness, becomes single-valued once the swirling parameter R and j are large enough — the swirling background “guarantees the uniqueness of the rotating black ring” (b161), a property argued from Fig. 10.

Load-bearing premise

The entire black-ring section assumes that a value λc solving Eq. (5.19) actually exists for the relevant parameter ranges so that the conical singularity is removed; if λc does not exist for some (ν, R, j), the ring is not regular there and every quantity computed at λ = λc, including the uniqueness curves of Fig. 10, is undefined.

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  • The swirling Myers–Perry black hole is completely regular outside the horizon, in sharp contrast to the four-dimensional Kerr-in-swirling-universe case which carries conical defects — a higher-dimensional bonus.
  • The Komar charges of both embedded objects are enlarged by factors depending on the product ajm (Myers–Perry) or analogous couplings (ring), so the swirling background systematically raises the local mass and angular momentum above their asymptotically flat values.
  • The bound 27π/32 · J_H²/M_H³ < 1 is preserved and actually sharpened for the Myers–Perry hole, so the swirling background forces the angular momentum to stay below the flat-space maximum rather than relaxing it.
  • For the black ring, the swirling background restores uniqueness: for large R or j, each value of ν yields exactly one regular ring, breaking the double-branch structure of the asymptotically flat case.
  • The same Ehlers machinery is proposed as a route to regularize other singular five-dimensional solutions, such as the double Myers–Perry hole, lens-space black holes, and, via dimensional reduction, four-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–dilaton compact objects.

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  • If the uniqueness restoration is genuine and not an artefact of the numerical evaluation, it suggests that the swirling background acts as an effective regulator of the continuous degeneracy of higher-dimensional black holes — a mechanism that a formal uniqueness theorem, if one is eventually proven, would have to reproduce.
  • The same ratio J_H²/M_H³ that diagnoses uniqueness here could be used as a probe for merging or phase-transition behaviour as the ring interpolates between the asymptotically flat and strongly swirling regimes.
  • A direct test of the uniqueness claim would be to compute, for fixed (M_H, J_H), whether the swirling ring admits one or more solutions; the paper's Fig. 10 suggests a single branch, but a two-parameter scan in the full parameter space would settle it.
  • The regularity requirement, which fixes λc numerically, may itself be viewed as a constraint surface in parameter space; whether the region where λc exists covers all physically relevant (R, j) or only a band remains open.
Original abstract

We construct a five-dimensional generalization of the swirling universe and embed in it the Myers-Perry black hole and the rotating black ring. We prove that both solutions are free of conical singularities, analyze their geometrical properties, compute their mass and angular momentum, and discuss their uniqueness.

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We construct a five-dimensional generalization of the swirling universe and embed in it the Myers-Perry black hole and the rotating black ring. We prove that both solutions are free of conical singularities, analyze their geometrical properties, compute their mass and angular momentum, and discuss their uniqueness.

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Figure 1. Plots showing the motion of a massless particle in the swirling universe (3.5), with
Figure 2. Plots showing the motion of a massive particle in the swirling universe (3.5), with
Figure 3. Plots showing the ratio 27π 32 J 2 H M3 H as a function of m (a and j are fixed), for two values of j. The orange lines represent the asymptotically flat Myers–Perry ratio (4.23), while the blue lines represent the swirling Myers–Perry ratio (4.24): the main observation is that both ratios keep their value below the horizontal dashed line with value 1. Moreover, the swirling ratio (4.24) is smaller than the standard one, and decreases with respect to (4.23) by increasing the value of j, as one can appreciate by comparing the plots. so we observe that, whenever a 2 < m, the ratio is…
Figure 4. Ergoregion cross-sections for fixed values of
Figure 5. Ergoregion cross-sections for fixed values of
Figure 6. Plots showing µ as a function of λ (blue line), for fixed values of ν, R and j, together with the constant function 1 (orange line). We observe that a solution λ = λc to the Eq. (5.19), represented by the intersection between the two lines, exists. We have to choose the parameters in such a way that the quantity µ = (1 + λ)(1 − ν) 2 (1 − λ)(1 + ν) 2  1 − jR3 √ λν(1 + 2ν + 2λ(1 + ν)) 1 + jR3 √ λν 2 , (5.18) satisfies the equation µ = 1 , (5.19) for a certain value λ = λc. We immediately notice that, when j = 0, we recover the regularizing value λc = 2ν 1+ν 2 , in agreement with…
Figure 7. Mass as a function of ν for the swirling black ring (blue line) and for the asymptotically flat black ring (orange line) for R = 1 and j = 0.1. The mass in the swirling case is larger than the standard one, and the distance between the two curves increases when j grows. Also in this case, the presence of the swirling background modifies the area of the horizon; when j = 0, the original value is recovered. Given the definition (4.15), and chosen the generator of the Killing horizon to be ζ = ∂ ∂t + ΩH ∂ ∂ψ , (5.21) where the angular velocity of the horizon is ΩH = − gtψ gψψ
Figure 8. Angular momentum as a function of ν for the swirling black ring (blue line) and for the asymptotically flat black ring (orange line) for R = 1 and j = 0.1. The angular momentum in the swirling case is larger than the standard one, and the distance between the two curves increases when j grows. In this case, however, the explicit evaluation of the Komar integrals is a formidable task, and we have not succeeded in finding an analytical form of the charges. Again, we have to rely on a numerical evaluation of the integrals (5.24). We compute numerically the mass as a function of ν with…
Figure 9. Plot showing the ratio 27π 32 J 2 H M3 H as a function of ν. We see that in the range between 27π 32 and 1 two asymptotically flat black rings exist for the same value of ν. behaviour, we also deduce that R and j couple to give the mass and the angular momentum (as it happens, e.g., for the periodicity of the angular coordinates) since the degree of non-uniqueness is related to both of them. The most interesting finding, here, is that the swirling background guarantees the uniqueness of the rotating black ring: one may wonder if this result is related to some uniqueness theorem, as…
Figure 10. Plots showing the ratio 27π 32 J 2 H M3 H as a function of ν for the swirling black ring. The non-uniqueness is related to the value of the parameters: by increasing R or j, we recover the uniqueness of the swirling black ring. 24

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