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Stable colored black holes with quartic self-interactions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-05-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analytically prove the linear radial stability of non-Abelian black holes with quartic self-interactions. The background, constructed from the Wu--Yang magnetic monopole ansatz, is an exact black-hole solution carrying a non-Abelian magnetic charge QNA2Q_{\rm NA}^2 controlled by a single coupling parameter χ\chi, and admits two distinct branches. The odd sector is always stable, while in the even sector the effective potential is positive for branch~I and negative for branch~II, establishing stability and potential instability, respectively. The potential instability of branch~II is consistent with its connection to the perturbatively unstable Einstein--Yang--Mills Reissner--Nordstr\"{o}m solution. Branch~I remains linearly stable throughout the physical domain of χ\chi where the solutions are regular and free of naked singularities. Our results prove the existence of the first linearly stable asymptotically flat hairy black holes in four dimensions with a minimally coupled non-Abelian Proca self-interaction.

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@article{arxiv.2605.16005,
  title  = {Stable colored black holes with quartic self-interactions},
  author = {Jose F. Rodriguez-Ruiz and Gabriel Gomez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16005},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures, corrected typos; simplified the closed-form expression for the branch II potential; minor wording corrections

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