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"Classification of Near-Horizon Geometries of Extremal Black Holes"

Hari K. Kunduri and James Lucietti

	Abstract
1	Introduction
	1.1	Black holes in string theory
	1.2	Gauge/gravity duality
	1.3	Black hole classification
	1.4	This review
2	Degenerate Horizons and Near-Horizon Geometry
	2.1	Coordinate systems and near-horizon limit
	2.2	Curvature of near-horizon geometry
	2.3	Einstein equations and energy conditions
	2.4	Physical charges
3	General Results
	3.1	Horizon topology theorem
	3.2	AdS₂-structure theorems
4	Vacuum Solutions
	4.1	Static: all dimensions
	4.2	Three dimensions
	4.3	Four dimensions
	4.4	Five dimensions
	4.5	Higher dimensions
5	Supersymmetric Solutions
	5.1	Four dimensions
	5.2	Five dimensions
	5.3	Six dimensions
	5.4	Ten dimensions
	5.5	Eleven dimensions
6	Solutions with Gauge Fields
	6.1	Three dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–Chern–Simons theory
	6.2	Four dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory
	6.3	Five dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–Chern–Simons theory
	6.4	Theories with hidden symmetry
	6.5	Non-Abelian gauge fields
7	Applications and Related Topics
	7.1	Black-hole uniqueness theorems
	7.2	Stability of near-horizon geometries and extremal black holes
	7.3	Geometric inequalities
	7.4	Analytic continuation
	7.5	Extremal branes
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Footnotes

The emergence of an AdS₃ factor for solutions with certain null singularities has been previously observed [68 , 18

]. We will only consider regular horizons, so the area of spatial cross sections of the horizon is necessarily non-zero.