Braneworld black holes as gravitational lenses

Black holes acting as gravitational lenses produce, besides the primary and secondary weak field images, two infinite sets of relativistic images. These images can be studied using the strong field limit, an analytic method based on a logarithmic asymptotic approximation of the deflection angle. In this work, braneworld black holes are analyzed as gravitational lenses in the strong field limit and the feasibility of observation of the images is discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Brazilian Journal of Physics (proceedings of the Conference 100 Years of Relativity, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2005

Charged shells in a (2+1)-dimensional spacetime

We study circular shells in a (2+1)-dimensional background within the framework of Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. For shells around black holes we analyze the mechanical stability under perturbations preserving the symmetry. Shells around vacuum are also discussed. We find a large range in the values of the parameters compatible with stable configurations.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures; v2: improved version, new references adde

Shadows of rotating black holes in alternative theories

We briefly review some recent advances in the study of the shadows of rotating black holes in alternative theories. The size and the shape of the shadow depend on the mass and the angular momentum, and they can also depend on other parameters specific of the particular model adopted. As an example, we show the results corresponding to a rotating braneworld black hole.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor corrections; prepared for the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG14

Some general aspects of thin-shell wormholes with cylindrical symmetry

In this article we study a general class of non-rotating thin-shell wormholes with cylindrical symmetry. We consider two physically sound definitions of the flare-out condition and we show that the less restrictive one allows for the construction of wormholes with positive energy density at the throat. We also analyze the mechanical stability of these objects under perturbations preserving the symmetry, proving that previous results are particular cases of a general property. We present examples of wormholes corresponding to Einstein-Maxwell spacetimes.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; v4: corrected versio

Asymptotically anti-de Sitter cylindrical thin-shell wormholes

In this article we investigate cylindrical thin-shell wormholes which are asymptotically anti-de Sitter. We analyze their stability under perturbations preserving the symmetry by using two different methods. We compare the results with those corresponding to the wormholes constructed from the Levi-Civita spacetime. We find that the configurations always require the presence of exotic matter at the throat, and, in the case of the linearized stability analysis, they can be stable for suitable values of the parametersComment: 11 pages, 3 figures; v2: improved versio