End Point of the Ultraspinning Instability and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

2017/02/28 by Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, Luis Lehner +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic censorship hypothesis #Cosmic ray #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #General relativity #Instability #Physics #Point (geometry) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.118.151103

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151103 (2017) · Matches the published version. 4 pages plus references and supplemental material, 8 figures

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Abstract

We determine the end point of the axisymmetric ultraspinning instability of asymptotically flat Myers-Perry black holes in D=6 spacetime dimensions. In the nonlinear regime, this instability gives rise to a sequence of concentric rings connected by segments of black membrane on the rotation plane. The latter become thinner over time, resulting in the formation of a naked singularity in finite asymptotic time and hence a violation of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in asymptotically flat higher-dimensional spaces.

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