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Classical and thermodynamic stability of black branes

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
It is argued that many nonextremal black branes exhibit a classical Gregory-Laflamme instability if, and only if, they are locally thermodynamically unstable. For some black branes, the Gregory-Laflamme instability must therefore disappear near extremality. For the black p-branes of the type II supergravity theories, the Gregory-Laflamme instability disappears near extremality for p=1,2,4 but persists all the way down to extremality for p=5,6 (the black D3-brane is not covered by the analysis of this paper). This implies that the instability also vanishes for the near-extremal black M2 and M5-brane solutions.
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(US)
OSTI ID:
40230597
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 64; ISSN 0556-2821
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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