
We consider axially symmetric static metrics in arbitrary dimension, both with and without a cosmological constant. The most obvious such solutions have an SO(n) group of Killing vectors representing the axial symmetry, although one can also consider abelian groups which represent a flat `internal space'. We relate such metrics to lower dimensional dilatonic cosmological metrics with a Liouville potential. We also develop a duality relation between vacuum solutions with internal curvature and those with zero internal curvature but a cosmological constant. This duality relation gives a solution generating technique permitting the mapping of different spacetimes. We give a large class of solutions to the vacuum or cosmological constant spacetimes. We comment on the extension of the C-metric to higher dimensions and provide a novel solution for a braneworld black hole.
36 pages, LaTeX (JHEP), 4 figures, section added (published version)
High Energy Physics - Theory, Black holes, Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), black holes, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Weyl metrics, branes, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Rindler metric, Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories, C-metric
High Energy Physics - Theory, Black holes, Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), black holes, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Weyl metrics, branes, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Rindler metric, Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories, C-metric
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