Fate of the Black String Instability

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2001-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0105111v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 131301

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages, v2: few clarifications and references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.131301

Gregory and Laflamme showed that certain nonextremal black strings (and p-branes) are unstable to linearized perturbations. It is widely believed that this instability will cause the black string horizon to classically pinch off and then quantum mechanically separate, resulting in higher dimensional black holes. We argue that this cannot happen. Under very mild assumptions, classical event horizons cannot pinch off. Instead, they settle down to new static black string solutions which are not translationally invariant along the string.

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