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A new dynamical instability in Anti-de-Sitter spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present fully dynamical solutions to Einstein-scalar theory in asymptotically Anti-de-Sitter spacetime with a scalar potential containing particularly rich physics. Depending on one parameter in the potential we find an especially interesting regime, which exhibits a thermodynamically stable, but dynamically unstable black brane, even at zero momentum. We show this using the non-linear dynamics, and give a clear interpretation in terms of the spectrum of linearized perturbations. Our results translate directly to their dual strongly coupled non-conformal field theories.

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@article{arxiv.1603.07724,
  title  = {A new dynamical instability in Anti-de-Sitter spacetime},
  author = {Umut Gürsoy and Aron Jansen and Wilke van der Schee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07724},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 10 figures. v2: references, figures and discussion updated

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