Black strings and [ital p]-branes are unstable

Journal Article · Mon May 10 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2837· OSTI ID:6584612

Gregory, R ^[1]; Laflamme, R ^[2]

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1. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
2. Theoretical Astrophysics, T-6, MSB288, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

We investigate the evolution of small perturbations around black strings and branes which are low energy solutions of string theory. For simplicity we focus attention on the zero charge case and show that there are unstable modes for a range of time frequency and wavelength in the extra 10[minus][ital D] dimensions. These perturbations can be stabilized if the extra dimensions are compactified to a scale smaller than the minimum wavelength for which instability occurs and thus will not affect large astrophysical black holes in four dimensions. We comment on the implications of this result for the cosmic censorship hypothesis.

• OSTI ID: 6584612
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 70:19; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
BLACK HOLES
STRING MODELS
BATTERY CHARGE STATE
DIMENSIONS
QUANTUM GRAVITY
SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC
SINGULARITY
STABILITY
COMPOSITE MODELS
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FIELD THEORIES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
METRICS
PARTICLE MODELS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MODEL
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