THE RETURN OF THE MEMBRANE PARADIGM? BLACK HOLES AND STRINGS IN THE WATER TAP

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012176zbMATH Open1151.83333arXiv0705.2777OpenAlexW2076918374MaRDI QIDQ3532166FDOQ3532166

Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri, Óscar J. C. Dias

Publication date: 3 November 2008

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Several general arguments indicate that the event horizon behaves as a stretched membrane. We propose using this relation to understand gravity and dynamics of black objects in higher dimensions. We provide evidence that (i) the gravitational Gregory-Laflamme instability has a classical counterpart in the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of fluids. Each known feature of the gravitational instability can be accounted for in the fluid model. These features include threshold mode, dispersion relation, time evolution and critical dimension of certain phase transitions. Thus, we argue that black strings break in much the same way as water from a faucet breaks up into small droplets. (ii) General rotating black holes can also be understood with this analogy. In particular, instability and bifurcation diagrams for black objects can easily be inferred. This correspondence can and should be used as a guiding tool to understand and explore physics of gravity in higher dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2777

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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Cited In (3)

• Ultraspinning instability of anti-de Sitter black holes
• Black Holes in Higher-Dimensional Gravity
• Membrane paradigm realized?

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