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Instability of hairy black holes in regularized 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-08-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In regularized 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity derived from a Kaluza-Klein reduction of higher-dimensional EGB theory, we study the existence and stability of black hole (BH) solutions on a static and spherically symmetric background. We show that asymptotically-flat hairy BH solutions realized for a spatially-flat maximally symmetric internal space are unstable against linear perturbations for any rescaled GB coupling constant. This instability is present for the angular propagation of even-parity perturbations both in the vicinity of an event horizon and at spatial infinity. There is also a strong coupling problem associated with the kinetic term of even-parity perturbations vanishing everywhere.

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@article{arxiv.2205.09932,
  title  = {Instability of hairy black holes in regularized 4-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity},
  author = {Shinji Tsujikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09932},
  year   = {2022}
}

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