Instability of Reissner-Nordstroem black holes in de Sitter backgrounds

Journal Article · Tue Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 2009 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.80.127502· OSTI ID:21316613

Cardoso, Vitor; Lemos, Madalena; Marques, Miguel ^[1]

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1. CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677-1848 (United States)

Recent numerical investigations have uncovered a surprising result: Reissner-Nordstroem-de Sitter black holes are unstable for spacetime dimensions larger than 6. Here we prove the existence of such instability analytically, and we compute the time scale in the near-extremal limit. We find very good agreement with the previous numerical results. Our results may be helpful in shedding some light on the nature of the instability.

• OSTI ID: 21316613
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 80; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
BLACK HOLES
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS
DE SITTER SPACE
INSTABILITY
MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
SPACE-TIME