Rayleigh-Plateau and Gregory-Laflamme instabilities of black strings

Details Rayleigh-Plateau and Gregory-Laflamme instabilities of black strings Rayleigh-Plateau and Gregory-Laflamme instabilities of black strings

2006-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602017v3

Phys.Rev.Lett.96:181601,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

4 pages, 2 Figures. RevTex4. v2: Added section discussing the existence of a critical dimension also in the fluid model. v3: A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.181601

Many and very general arguments indicate that the event horizon behaves as a stretched membrane. We explore this analogy by associating the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings with a classical membrane instability known as Rayleigh-Plateau instability. We show that the key features of the black string instability can be reproduced using this viewpoint. In particular, we get good agreement for the threshold mode in all dimensions and exact agreement for large spacetime dimensionality. The instability timescale is also well described within this model, as well as the dimensionality dependence. We conjecture that general non-axisymmetric perturbations are stable. We further argue that the instability of ultra-spinning black holes follows from this model.

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