Abstract
It has been proposed that translationally invariant black branes are classically stable if and only if they are locally thermodynamically stable. Reall has outlined a general argument to demonstrate this, and studied in detail the case of charged black p-branes in type II supergravity. We consider the application of his argument in the simplest nontrivial case, an uncharged asymptotically flat brane enclosed in a finite cylindrical cavity. In this simple context, it is possible to give a more complete argument than in the cases considered earlier, and it is therefore a particularly attractive example of the general approach.
- Received 17 July 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.124006
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