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Horizon States for AdS Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the time-independent modes of a massless scalar field in various black hole backgrounds, and show that for these black holes, the time-independent mode is localised at the horizon. A similar analysis is done for time-independent equilibrium modes of the five dimensional plane AdS black hole. A self-adjointness analysis of this problem reveals that in addition to the modes corresponding to the usual glueball states, there is a discrete infinity of other equilibrium modes with imaginary mass for the glueball. We suggest these modes may be related to a Savvidy-Nielsen-Olesen-like vacuum instability in QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002036,
  title  = {Horizon States for AdS Black Holes},
  author = {T. R. Govindarajan and V. Suneeta and S. Vaidya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002036},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Nuclear Physics B