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Scalar Hair from a Derivative Coupling of a Scalar Field to the Einstein Tensor

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a gravitating system of vanishing cosmological constant consisting of an electromagnetic field and a scalar field coupled to the Einstein tensor. A Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole undergoes a second-order phase transition to a hairy black hole of generally anisotropic hair at a certain critical temperature which we compute. The no-hair theorem is evaded due to the coupling between the scalar field and the Einstein tensor. Within a first order perturbative approach we calculate explicitly the properties of a hairy black hole configuration near the critical temperature and show that it is energetically favorable over the corresponding Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0263,
  title  = {Scalar Hair from a Derivative Coupling of a Scalar Field to the Einstein Tensor},
  author = {Theodoros Kolyvaris and George Koutsoumbas and Eleftherios Papantonopoulos and George Siopsis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0263},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24 pages, 13 figures, title changed, improved discussion of the first order perturbative analysis, reference added, published version