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On the Nonlinear Stability of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Solutions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Despite the recent evidence that anti-de Sitter spacetime is nonlinearly unstable, we argue that many asymptotically anti-de Sitter solutions are nonlinearly stable. This includes geons, boson stars, and black holes. As part of our argument, we calculate the frequencies of long-lived gravitational quasinormal modes of AdS black holes in various dimensions. We also discuss a new class of asymptotically anti-de Sitter solutions describing noncoalescing black hole binaries.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5772,
  title  = {On the Nonlinear Stability of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Solutions},
  author = {Oscar J. C. Dias and Gary T. Horowitz and Don Marolf and Jorge E. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5772},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages. 5 figures