Geons and the Instability of Anti-de Sitter Spacetime
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-08-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We briefly review the evidence that anti-de Sitter spacetime is nonlinearly unstable, and the perturbative arguments that there should exist geons - nonsingular solutions to Einstein's equation with a helical symmetry. We then explicitly construct these geons numerically and discuss some of their properties. We conclude with some open questions.
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@article{arxiv.1408.5906,
title = {Geons and the Instability of Anti-de Sitter Spacetime},
author = {Gary T. Horowitz and Jorge E. Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5906},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
15 pages, 2 figures; To appear in a special volume of "Surveys in Differential Geometry" in order to celebrate 100 years of general relativity theory