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Seiberg-Witten Instability of Various Topological Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-04-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We review the Seiberg-Witten instability of topological black holes in Anti-de Sitter space due to nucleation of brane-anti-brane pairs. We start with black holes in general relativity, and then proceed to discuss the peculiar property of topological black holes in Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity -- they have instabilities that occur at only finite range of distance away from the horizon. This behavior is not unique to black holes in Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory, as it is also found in the relatively simple systems of charged black hole with dilaton hair that arise in low energy limit of string theory.

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@article{arxiv.1302.7162,
  title  = {Seiberg-Witten Instability of Various Topological Black Holes},
  author = {Yen Chin Ong and Pisin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.7162},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

3 pages, minor correction, references updated; contribution for the Proceedings of 13th Marcel Grossman Meeting (MG13), Stockholm, Sweden, 1-7 July 2012