Black hole instabilities and exponential growth

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2446-1zbMATH Open1326.83053arXiv1501.02522OpenAlexW1901718843MaRDI QIDQ500042FDOQ500042

Robert M. Wald, Kartik Prabhu

Publication date: 7 October 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, a general analysis has been given of the stability with respect to axisymmetric perturbations of stationary-axisymmetric black holes and black branes in vacuum general relativity in arbitrary dimensions. It was shown that positivity of canonical energy on an appropriate space of perturbations is necessary and sufficient for stability. However, the notions of both "stability" and "instability" in this result are significantly weaker than one would like to obtain. In this paper, we prove that if a perturbation of the form $pound{s}_{t}deltag$---with $deltag$ a solution to the linearized Einstein equation---has negative canonical energy, then that perturbation must, in fact, grow exponentially in time. The key idea is to make use of the $t$- or ($t$-$phi$)-reflection isometry, $i$, of the background spacetime and decompose the initial data for perturbations into their odd and even parts under $i$. We then write the canonical energy as $mathscrE=mathscrK+mathscrU$, where $mathscrK$ and $mathscrU$, respectively, denote the canonical energy of the odd part (kinetic energy) and even part (potential energy). One of the main results of this paper is the proof that $mathscrK$ is positive definite for any black hole background. We use $mathscrK$ to construct a Hilbert space $mathscrH$ on which time evolution is given in terms of a self-adjoint operator $ildemathcalA$, whose spectrum includes negative values if and only if $mathscrU$ fails to be positive. Negative spectrum of $ildemathcalA$ implies exponential growth of the perturbations in $mathscrH$ that have nontrivial projection into the negative spectral subspace. This includes all perturbations of the form $pound{s}_{t}deltag$ with negative canonical energy. A "Rayleigh-Ritz" type of variational principle is derived, which can be used to obtain lower bounds on the rate of exponential growth.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02522

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spaceperturbationsself-adjoint operatorexponential growthblack branesblack hole instabilitieslinearized Einstein equationnegative canonical energystationary-axisymmetric black holesvacuum general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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