Stability of Lovelock Black Holes under Tensor Perturbations

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2009-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/0902.2921v3

Phys.Rev.D79:104025,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, 7 figures;v3:references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.104025

We study the stability of static black holes in the third order Lovelock theory. We derive a master equation for tensor perturbations. Using the master equation, we analyze the stability of Lovelock black holes mainly in seven and eight dimensions. We find there are cases where the linear analysis breaks down. If we restrict ourselves to the regime where the linear analysis is legitimate, black holes are always stable in seven dimensions. However, in eight dimensions, there exists a critical mass below which black holes are unstable. Combining our result in the third order Lovelock theory with the previous one in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory, we conjecture that small black holes are unstable in any dimensions. The instability found in this paper will be important for the analysis of black holes at the LHC.

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