Thursday, June 20, 2013

1306.4318 (Gavin S. Hartnett et al.)

Non-Axisymmetric Instability of Rotating Black Holes in Higher
Dimensions
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Gavin S. Hartnett, Jorge E. Santos
We calculate the scalar-gravitational quasi-normal modes of equal angular momenta Myers-Perry black holes in odd dimensions. We find a new bar-mode (non-axisymmetric) classical instability for $D \ge 7$. These black holes were previously found to be unstable to axisymmetric perturbations for spins very near extremality. The bar-mode instability we find sets in at much slower spins, and is therefore the dominant instability of these black holes. This instability has important consequences for the phase diagram of black holes in higher dimensions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4318

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