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Topological black holes in ${\mathfrak {su}}(N)$ Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-01-08 v2

Abstract

We investigate the phase space of topological black hole solutions of su(N){\mathfrak {su}}(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory in anti-de Sitter space with a purely magnetic gauge potential. The gauge field is described by N1N-1 magnetic gauge field functions ωj\omega_{j}, j=1,,N1j=1,\ldots , N-1. For su(2){\mathfrak {su}}(2) gauge group, the function ω1\omega_{1} has no zeros. This is no longer the case when we consider a larger gauge group. The phase space of topological black holes is considerably simpler than for the corresponding spherically symmetric black holes, but for N>2N>2 and a flat event horizon, there exist solutions where at least one of the ωj\omega_{j} functions has one or more zeros. For most of the solutions, all the ωj\omega_{j} functions have no zeros, and at least some of these are linearly stable.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04955,
  title  = {Topological black holes in ${\mathfrak {su}}(N)$ Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant},
  author = {J. Erik Baxter and Elizabeth Winstanley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04955},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, minor changes, references added, matches published version