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Superradiance and Instability of Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We discuss the relation between the superradiance phenomenon and the instability of rotating black holes in higher dimensions. In particular, we point out that the superradiant instability of a massless scalar field around a simply rotating Kerr-adS black hole implies the gravitational instability of that black hole for tensor-type perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.0711.4184,
  title  = {Superradiance and Instability of Black Holes},
  author = {Hideo Kodama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4184},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

References added. 13 pages, 3 figures. A talk given at ICGA8 to be published in Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement