Instability of sphaleron black holes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space-time

2016/04/30 by Elizabeth Winstanley
Physics and Astronomy · #Anti-de Sitter space #Baryogenesis #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #De Sitter space #De Sitter universe #Higgs boson #Mathematical physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Schwarzschild radius #Space (punctuation) #Space time #Spacetime #Sphaleron #Universe #de Sitter–Schwarzschild metric #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.026

5 pages, no figures, references added, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

arxiv created 2016/05/12 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/12 · arxiv updated 2016/06/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We prove that sphaleron black holes in su ( 2 ) Einstein–Yang–Mills–Higgs theory with a Higgs doublet in four-dimensional, asymptotically anti-de Sitter space-time are unstable.

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