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We compute the mass and the temperature of third order Lovelock black holes with negative Gauss-Bonnet coefficient $\alpha_2<0$ in anti-de Sitter space and perform the stability analysis of topological black holes. When $k=-1$, the third…
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A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study such instabilities. Considering the linear regime by…