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Neutral Black Rings in Five Dimensions are Unstable.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Santos, Jorge E 
Way, Benson 

Abstract

We study nonaxisymmetric linearized gravitational perturbations of the Emparan-Reall black ring using numerical methods. We find an unstable mode whose onset lies within the "fat" branch of the black ring and continues into the "thin" branch. Together with previous results using Penrose inequalities that fat black rings are unstable, this provides numerical evidence that the entire black ring family is unstable.

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Keywords

hep-th, hep-th, gr-qc

Journal Title

Physical Review Letters

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Journal ISSN

0031-9007
1079-7114

Volume Title

114

Publisher

American Physical Society

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Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J000434/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
European Research Council (279363)