Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-05-20
Prog.Theor.Phys. 110 (2003) 901-919
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
19 pages, 9 figures, references and comments on the generalised black hole case are added, minor changes in text, version to a
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTP.110.901
We investigate the classical stability of the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes against linear perturbations, in the framework of a gauge-invariant formalism for gravitational perturbations of maximally symmetric black holes, recently developed by the authors. The perturbations are classified into the tensor, vector, and scalar-type modes according to their tensorial behaviour on the spherical section of the background metric, where the last two modes correspond respectively to the axial- and the polar-mode in the four-dimensional situation. We show that, for each mode of the perturbations, the spatial derivative part of the master equation is a positive, self-adjoint operator in the $L^2$-Hilbert space, hence that the master equation for each tensorial type of perturbations does not admit normalisable negative-modes which would describe unstable solutions. On the same Schwarzschild background, we also analyse the static perturbation of the scalar mode, and show that there exists no static perturbation which is regular everywhere outside the event horizon and well-behaved at spatial infinity. This checks the uniqueness of the higher-dimensional spherically symmetric, static, vacuum black hole, within the perturbation framework. Our strategy for the stability problem is also applicable to the other higher-dimensional maximally symmetric black holes with non-vanishing cosmological constant. We show that all possible types of maximally symmetric black holes (thus, including the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black holes) are stable against the tensor and the vector perturbations.
Ishibashi Akihiro
Kodama Hideo
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