Gravitational instability of the inner static region of a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

Details Gravitational instability of the inner static region of a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole Gravitational instability of the inner static region of a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

2009-12-31

arxiv.org/abs/1001.0152v2

Class.Quant.Grav.27:185007,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

24 pages, 4 figures. Changes and corrections in proof using intertwiners, also in figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/27/18/185007

Reissner--Nordstr\"om black holes have two static regions: $r > \ro$ and $0 < r < \ri$, where $\ri$ and $\ro$ are the inner and outer horizon radii. The stability of the exterior static region has been established long time ago. In this work we prove that the interior static region is unstable under linear gravitational perturbations, by showing that field perturbations compactly supported within this region will generically excite a mode that grows exponentially in time. This result gives an alternative reason to mass inflation to consider the space time extension beyond the Cauchy horizon as physically irrelevant, and thus provides support to the strong cosmic censorship conjecture, which is also backed by recent evidence of a linear gravitational instability in the interior region of Kerr black holes found by the authors. The use of intertwiners to solve for the evolution of initial data plays a key role, and adapts without change to the case of super-extremal \rn black holes, allowing to complete the proof of the linear instability of this naked singularity. A particular intertwiner is found such that the intertwined Zerilli field has a geometrical meaning -it is the first order variation of a particular Riemann tensor invariant-. Using this, calculations can be carried out explicitely for every harmonic number.

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