Instability and new phases of higher-dimensional rotating black holes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-01-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
It has been conjectured that higher-dimensional rotating black holes become unstable at a sufficiently large value of the rotation, and that new black holes with pinched horizons appear at the threshold of the instability. We search numerically, and find, the stationary axisymmetric perturbations of Myers-Perry black holes with a single spin that mark the onset of the instability and the appearance of the new black hole phases. We also find new ultraspinning Gregory-Laflamme instabilities of rotating black strings and branes.
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@article{arxiv.0907.2248,
title = {Instability and new phases of higher-dimensional rotating black holes},
author = {Oscar J. C. Dias and Pau Figueras and Ricardo Monteiro and Jorge E. Santos and Roberto Emparan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2248},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures. The instability of the black hole is argued to appear at the second zero mode. The first zero mode is not associated to a new branch of black hole solutions