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Singly-spinning Myers-Perry black holes in d ≥ 6 spacetime dimensions are unstable for sufficiently large angular momentum. We numerically construct (in d = 6 and d = 7) two new stationary branches of lumpy (rippled) black hole solutions which bifurcate from the onset of this ultraspinning instability. We give evidence that one of these branches connects through a topology-changing merger to black ring solutions which we also construct numerically. The other branch approaches a solution with large curvature invariants. We are also able to compare the d = 7 ring solutions with results from finite-size corrections to the blackfold approach, finding excellent agreement.
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Dias, Ó.J.C., Santos, J.E. & Way, B. Rings, ripples, and rotation: connecting black holes to black rings. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 45 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2014)045
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