Instability of charged black holes in Anti-de Sitter space

Sep, 2000
6 pages
Published in:
  • Clay Math.Proc. 1 (2002) 221
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Report number:
  • PUPT-1953

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Abstract:
We exhibit a tachyonic mode in a linearized analysis of perturbations of large anti-de Sitter Reissner-Nordstrom black holes in four dimensions. In the large black hole limit, and up to a 0.7% discrepancy which is probably round-off error in the numerical analysis, the tachyon appears precisely when the black hole becomes thermodynamically unstable.
  • black hole: Reissner-Nordstroem
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • tachyon
  • perturbation theory: linear
  • field theory: conformal
  • black hole: stability