Horizon instability of the extremal BTZ black hole

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)094zbMATH Open1437.83081arXiv1911.11164OpenAlexW3104531219MaRDI QIDQ779355FDOQ779355

Peter Zimmerman, Arun Ravishankar, Samuel E. Gralla

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: We study real-time propagation of a massive scalar field on the extremal BTZ black hole spacetime, focusing on the Aretakis instability of the event horizon. We obtain a simple time-domain expression for the $extrm{AdS}_3$ retarded Green function with Dirichlet boundary conditions and construct the corresponding time-domain BTZ retarded Green function using the method of images. The field decays at different rates on and off the horizon, indicating that transverse derivatives grow with time on the horizon (Aretakis instability). We solve the null geodesic equation in full generality and show that the instability is associated with a class of null geodesics that orbit near the event horizon arbitrarily many times before falling in. In an appendix we also treat the problem in the frequency domain, finding consistency between the methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11164

zbMATH Keywords

black holesblack holes in string theoryAdS-CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Black hole in three-dimensional spacetime
• Quantum field theory on spacetimes with a compactly generated Cauchy horizon
• On the horizon instability of an extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole
• Dynamics in non-globally-hyperbolic static spacetimes: III. Anti-de Sitter spacetime
• The massive wave equation in asymptotically AdS spacetimes
• Solutions to a generalized spheroidal wave equation: Teukolsky’s equations in general relativity, and the two-center problem in molecular quantum mechanics
• The (2 + 1)-dimensional black hole
• What happens at the horizon(s) of an extreme black hole?
• Horizon instability of extremal black holes
• Stability and instability of extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetimes for linear scalar perturbations. I
• Stability and instability of extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetimes for linear scalar perturbations. II
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A remark about wave equations on the extreme Reissner–Nordström black hole exterior
• A note on instabilities of extremal black holes under scalar perturbations from afar
• The motion of point particles in curved spacetime
• The characteristic gluing problem and conservation laws for the wave equation on null hypersurfaces
• Scaling and universality in extremal black hole perturbations
• Is there a breakdown of effective field theory at the horizon of an extremal black hole?
• Critical exponents of extremal Kerr perturbations
• On late time tails in an extreme Reissner–Nordström black hole: frequency domain analysis
• Subleading BMS charges and fake news near null infinity
• Near-extremal black holes at late times, backreacted
• Semi-local quantum criticality and the instability of extremal planar horizons

Cited In (4)

• Horizon instability of massless scalar perturbations of an extreme Reissner-Nordström-AdS black hole
• Horizon dynamics of a BTZ black hole
• Slow scrambling in extremal BTZ and microstate geometries
• From regular black holes to horizonless objects: quasi-normal modes, instabilities and spectroscopy

Uses Software

• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

This page was built for publication: Horizon instability of the extremal BTZ black hole

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q779355)