Hunting for fermionic instabilities in charged AdS black holes

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DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)196zbMATH Open1436.83042arXiv1910.04181MaRDI QIDQ780894FDOQ780894

Ramon Masachs, Paul Rodgers, Óscar J. C. Dias, Olga Papadoulaki

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: Fermions scattering on a black hole background cannot develop an instability sourced by superradiance. However, in a global (or planar) AdS4-Reissner-Nordstr"om background fermions can violate the AdS2 fermionic mass stability bound as measured by a near horizon observer at zero temperature. This suggests that AdS-Reissner-Nordstr"om black holes might still be unstable to Dirac perturbations. Motivated by this observation we search for linear mode instabilities of Dirac fields in these backgrounds but find none. This is in contrast with the scalar field case, where a violation of the near-horizon Breitenl"ohner-Freedman stability bound in the AdS-Reissner-Nordstr"om background triggers the already known scalar condensation near-horizon linear instability (in the planar limit this is Gubser's instability that initiated the holographic superconductor programme). We consider both the standard and alternative AdS/CFT quantizations (that preserve the conformal invariance of AdS). These are reflective boundary conditions that have vanishing energy flux at the asymptotic boundary.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04181





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