On the stability of spherical membranes in curved space-times

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00209-XzbMATH Open1004.83528arXivgr-qc/9602009OpenAlexW2049673175MaRDI QIDQ1921056FDOQ1921056

Authors: A. L. Larsen, Carlos O. Lousto 

Publication date: 12 August 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the existence and stability of spherical membranes in curved spacetimes. For Dirac membranes in the Schwarzschild--de Sitter background we find that there exists an equilibrium solution. By fine--tuning the dimensionless parameter $Lambda{M}^2,$ the static membrane can be at any position outside the black hole event horizon, even at the stretched horizon, but the solution is unstable. We show that modes having $l=0$ (and for $Lambda{M}^2<16/243$ also $l=1$) are responsible for the instability. We also find that spherical higher order membranes (membranes with extrinsic curvature corrections), contrary to what happens in flat Minkowski space, {it do} have equilibrium solutions in a general curved background and, in particular, also in the ``plain Schwarzschild geometry (while Dirac membranes do not have equilibrium solutions there). These solutions, however, are also unstable. We shall discuss a way of by--passing these instability problems, and we also relate our results to the recent ideas of representing the black hole event horizon as a relativistic bosonic membrane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9602009

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityblack hole event horizoncovariant perturbationsDirac membranesSchwarzschild de Sitter background

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Black holes (83C57) General relativity (83C99)

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