Superradiant instabilities in a D-dimensional small Reissner-Nordström-anti-de Sitter black hole

Mengjie Wang and Carlos Herdeiro
Phys. Rev. D 89, 084062 – Published 18 April 2014

Abstract

We investigate the superradiant instability for a charged scalar field in a D-dimensional small Reissner–Nordström–anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole. First, we solve the charged Klein-Gordon equation analytically by a matching method. We show that the general D-dimensional quasinormal frequencies depend on the relation between the angular momentum quantum number, , and D. When is a (non-negative) integer multiple of D3, i.e. =p(D3), we find an analytical quasinormal frequency formula adding a purely imaginary correction to the AdS normal frequencies. This is the case for all modes in D=4. For general D there are two more cases: i) When obeys =(p+12)(D3), which can occur for odd D, we observe that the matching method fails, since the near- and far-region solutions have different functional dependences. ii) For all other cases, the analytical quasinormal frequency formula gives a complex correction to the AdS normal frequencies. Second, we perform a numerical calculation which confirms the analytical formulas obtained with the matching method and allows us to explore the case where that method failed. In the latter case, as in the former, we verify that all modes for all D may become superradiant, which contradicts a previous claim in the literature.

  • Received 21 February 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.084062

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Mengjie Wang* and Carlos Herdeiro

  • Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro and I3N, Campus de Santiago, 3810-183 Aveiro, Portugal

  • *mengjie.wang@ua.pt
  • herdeiro@ua.pt

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Vol. 89, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2014

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