Onset of superradiant instabilities in rotating spacetimes of exotic compact objects

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DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)132zbMATH Open1380.83144arXiv1704.05856MaRDI QIDQ683256FDOQ683256

Shahar Hod

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Exotic compact objects, horizonless spacetimes with reflective properties, have intriguingly been suggested by some quantum-gravity models as alternatives to classical black-hole spacetimes. A remarkable feature of spinning horizonless compact objects with reflective boundary conditions is the existence of a {it discrete} set of critical surface radii, , which can support spatially regular static ({it marginally-stable}) scalar field configurations (here is the dimensionless angular momentum of the exotic compact object). Interestingly, the outermost critical radius marks the boundary between stable and unstable exotic compact objects: spinning objects whose reflecting surfaces are situated in the region are stable, whereas spinning objects whose reflecting surfaces are situated in the region are superradiantly unstable to scalar perturbation modes. In the present paper we use analytical techniques in order to explore the physical properties of the critical (marginally-stable) spinning exotic compact objects. In particular, we derive a remarkably compact {it analytical} formula for the discrete spectrum of critical radii which characterize the marginally-stable exotic compact objects. We explicitly demonstrate that the analytically derived resonance spectrum agrees remarkably well with numerical results that recently appeared in the physics literature.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05856





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