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We study the stability of static black holes in Lovelock theory which is a natural higher dimensional generalization of Einstein theory. We show that Lovelock black holes are stable under vector perturbations in all dimensions. However, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-03 Tomohiro Takahashi , Jiro Soda

We investigate the classical stability of the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes against linear perturbations, in the framework of a gauge-invariant formalism for gravitational perturbations of maximally symmetric black holes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Akihiro Ishibashi , Hideo Kodama

We consider perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole that can be of both even and odd parity, keeping terms up to second order in perturbation theory, for the $\ell=2$ axisymmetric case. We develop explicit formulae for the evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Carlos O. Nicasio , Reinaldo Gleiser , Jorge Pullin

We study the instability of Schwarzschild black holes and the appearance of scalarized solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity performing a time-domain analysis in a perturbative scheme. First we consider a quadratic coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Fabrizio Corelli

The stability of thin shell wormholes and black holes to linearized spherically symmetric perturbations about a static equilibrium is analyzed. Thin shell formalism is explored and junctions formed from combinations of Schwarzschild,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Travis Seth Rippentrop , Avijit Bera , Mustapha Ishak

We investigate the pseudospectrum of a Schwarzschild-like spacetime within the framework of black hole perturbation theory to analyze a counterintuitive assertion regarding the instability of quasinormal modes. Recent findings suggest that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Pedro Henrique Croti Siqueira , Lucas Tobias de Paula , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Maurício Richartz

We study the linear stability of a nongravitating, steady-state, spherically symmetric ghost condensate accreting onto a Schwarzschild black hole using two methods. The first one is based on the conservation of the energy-momentum tensor of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-21 Claudia A. Rivasplata Paz , Jose Martins Salim , Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa

Quadratic scale-invariant gravity non minimally coupled to a scalar field provides a competitive model for inflation, characterized by the transition from an unstable to a stable fixed point, both characterized by constant scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Simon Boudet , Massimiliano Rinaldi , Samuele Marco Silveravalle

Five and six dimensional static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically Euclidean black holes, are unstable under gravitational perturbations if their mass is lower than a critical value set by the string tension. The instability is due to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Beroiz , Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser

We show that linear perturbations around the simplest black hole solution of massive bi-gravity theories, the bi-Schwarzschild solution, exhibit an unstable mode featuring the Gregory-Laflamme instability of higher-dimensional black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-05 Eugeny Babichev , Alessandro Fabbri

We investigate the classical stability of Schwarzschild-AdS black hole in a massive theory of the Einstein-Weyl gravity. It turns out that the linearized Einstein tensor perturbations exhibit unstable modes featuring the Gregory-Laflamme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yun Soo Myung

We investigate the linear stability of the two known branches of spherically-symmetric black holes in Quadratic Gravity. We extend previous work on the long-wavelength (Gregory-Laflamme) instability of the Schwarzschild branch to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Aaron Held , Jun Zhang

Within linearized perturbation theory, black holes decay to their final stationary state through the well-known spectrum of quasinormal modes. Here we numerically study whether nonlinearities change this picture. For that purpose we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Enrique Pazos , David Brizuela , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Manuel Tiglio

In this paper we pursue the study of linear perturbations around a Schwarzschild black hole in a generalized Einstein-Cartan theory of gravity, called torsion bigravity. This theory contains both massless and massive spin-2 excitations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Vasilisa Nikiforova

We study the quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around the distorted Schwarzschild black hole in the framework of the resonant models. We confine ourselves to the case of a quadrupole distortion which can be caused for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Efthimia Deligianni , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova

We carry out the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole in Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar theory. Here, we introduce two quadratic scalar couplings ($\phi_1^2,\phi_2^2$) to Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons terms, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou

Black strings, one class of higher dimensional analogues of black holes, were shown to be unstable to long wavelength perturbations by Gregory and Laflamme in 1992, via a linear analysis. We revisit the problem through numerical solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. W. Choptuik , L. Lehner , I. Olabarrieta , R. Petryk , F. Pretorius , H. Villegas

We perform the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole in $f(R)$ gravity with the parity-violating Chern-Simons (CS) term coupled to a dynamical scalar field $\theta$. For this purpose, we transform the $f(R)$ gravity into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Taeyoon Moon , Yun Soo Myung

Recently, ultracompact objects have been found to be susceptible to a new nonlinear instability, known as the light-ring instability, triggered by stable light rings. This discovery raises concerns about the viability of these objects as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Yupeng Zhang

We investigate the stability of charged black holes in two-dimensional heterotic string theories that were recently discussed by McGuidan, Nappi and Yost. In the framework of small time-dependent perturbation, we find that these black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 Rue-Ron Hsu , Green Huang , Wei-Fu Lin , Chin-Rong Lee