Unstable Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes in fourth-order gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2013-10-30 v2
Abstract
We study the stability of Schwarzschild-Tangherlini (ST) black holes in fourth-order gravity which provides a higher dimensional linearized massive equation. The linearized-Ricci tensor perturbation is employed to exhibit unstable modes featuring the Gregory-Laflamme (GL) instability of higher dimensional black strings, in comparison to the stable ST black holes in Einstein gravity. It turns out that the GL instability of the ST black holes in the fourth-order gravity originates from the massiveness, but not a nature of fourth-order derivative theories giving ghost states.
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@article{arxiv.1308.3907,
title = {Unstable Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes in fourth-order gravity},
author = {Yun Soo Myung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3907},
year = {2013}
}
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10 pages. version to appear in PRD