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Bulk Emission of Scalars by a Rotating Black Hole
We study in detail the scalar-field Hawking radiation emitted into the bulk by a higher-dimensional, rotating black hole. We numerically compute the angular eigenvalues, and solve the radial equation of motion in order to find transmission factors. The latter are found to be enhanced by the angular momentum of the black hole, and to exhibit the well-known effect of superradiance. The corresponding power spectra for scalar fields show an enhancement with the number of dimensions, as in the non-rotating case. On the other hand, the proportion of the total (i.e., bulk+brane) power that is emitted into the bulk decreases monotonically with the angular momentum. We compute the total mass loss rate of the black hole for a variety of black-hole angular momenta and bulk dimensions, and find that, in all cases, the bulk emission remains significantly smaller than the brane emission. The angular-momentum loss rate is also computed and found to have a smaller value in the bulk than on the brane
Characterizing asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes with abundant stable gauge field hair
In the light of the "no-hair" conjecture, we revisit stable black holes in
su(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant. These
black holes are endowed with copious amounts of gauge field hair, and we
address the question of whether these black holes can be uniquely characterized
by their mass and a set of global non-Abelian charges defined far from the
black hole. For the su(3) case, we present numerical evidence that stable black
hole configurations are fixed by their mass and two non-Abelian charges. For
general N, we argue that the mass and N-1 non-Abelian charges are sufficient to
characterize large stable black holes, in keeping with the spirit of the
"no-hair" conjecture, at least in the limit of very large magnitude
cosmological constant and for a subspace containing stable black holes (and
possibly some unstable ones as well).Comment: 33 pages, 13 figures, minor change
On the Existence of Soliton and Hairy Black Hole Solutions of su(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory with a Negative Cosmological Constant
We study the existence of soliton and black hole solutions of four-dimensional EinsteinâYangâMills theory with a negative cosmological constant. We prove the existence of non-trivial solutions for any integer N, with N â 1 gauge field degrees of freedom. In particular, we prove the existence of solutions in which all the gauge field functions have no zeros. For fixed values of the parameters (at the origin or event horizon, as applicable) defining the soliton or black hole solutions, if the magnitude of the cosmological constant is sufficiently large, then the gauge field functions all have no zeros. These latter solutions are of special interest because at least some of them will be linearly stable
On the existence of dyons and dyonic black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory
We study dyonic soliton and black hole solutions of the
Einstein-Yang-Mills equations in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. We prove
the existence of non-trivial dyonic soliton and black hole solutions in a
neighbourhood of the trivial solution. For these solutions the magnetic gauge
field function has no zeros and we conjecture that at least some of these
non-trivial solutions will be stable. The global existence proof uses local
existence results and a non-linear perturbation argument based on the (Banach
space) implicit function theorem.Comment: 23 pages, 2 figures. Minor revisions; references adde
Different populations of RNA polymerase II in living mammalian cells
RNA polymerase II is responsible for transcription of most eukaryotic genes, but, despite exhaustive analysis, little is known about how it transcribes natural templates in vivo. We studied polymerase dynamics in living Chinese hamster ovary cells using an established line that expresses the largest (catalytic) subunit of the polymerase (RPB1) tagged with the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Genetic complementation has shown this tagged polymerase to be fully functional. Fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP) reveals the existence of at least three kinetic populations of tagged polymerase: a large rapidly-exchanging population, a small fraction resistant to 5,6-dichloro-1-ÎČ-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole (DRB) but sensitive to a different inhibitor of transcription (i.e. heat shock), and a third fraction sensitive to both inhibitors. Quantitative immunoblotting shows the largest fraction to be the inactive hypophosphorylated form of the polymerase (i.e. IIA). Results are consistent with the second (DRB-insensitive but heat-shock-sensitive) fraction being bound but not engaged, while the third (sensitive to both DRB and heat shock) is the elongating hyperphosphorylated form (i.e. IIO)
Quantum field theory on global anti-de Sitter space-time with Robin boundary conditions
We compute the vacuum polarization for a massless, conformally coupled scalar field on the covering space of global, four-dimensional, anti-de Sitter space-time. Since anti-de Sitter space is not globally hyperbolic, boundary conditions must be applied to the scalar field. We consider general Robin (mixed) boundary conditions for which the classical evolution of the field is well-defined and stable. The vacuum expectation value of the square of the field is not constant unless either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions are applied. We also compute the thermal expectation value of the square of the field. For Dirichlet boundary conditions, both thermal and vacuum expectation values approach the same well-known limit on the space-time boundary. For all other Robin boundary conditions (including Neumann boundary conditions), the vacuum and thermal expectation values have the same limit on the space-time boundary, but this limit does not equal that in the Dirichlet case
Quantization of a charged scalar field on a charged black hole background
We study the canonical quantization of a massless charged scalar field on a
Reissner-Nordstrom black hole background. Our aim is to construct analogues of
the standard Boulware, Unruh and Hartle-Hawking quantum states which can be
defined for a neutral scalar field, and to explore their physical properties by
computing differences in expectation values of the scalar field condensate,
current and stress-energy tensor operators between two quantum states. Each of
these three states has a non-time-reversal-invariant ``past'' and ``future''
charged field generalization, whose properties are similar to those of the
corresponding ``past'' and ``future'' states for a neutral scalar field on a
Kerr black hole. In addition, we present some tentative,
time-reversal-invariant, equilibrium states. The first is a ``Boulware''-like
state which is as empty as possible at both future and past null infinity.
Second, we posit a ``Hartle-Hawking''-like state which may correspond to a
thermal distribution of particles. The construction of both these latter states
relies on the use of nonstandard commutation relations for the creation and
annihilation operators pertaining to superradiant modes.Comment: 48 pages, 12 figures, minor changes, accepted for publicatio
Micro black holes in the laboratory
The possibility of creating microscopic black holes is one of the most exciting predictions
for the LHC, with potentially major consequences for our current understanding of
physics. We briefly review the theoretical motivation for micro black hole production,
and our understanding of their subsequent evolution. Recent work on modelling the
radiation from quantum-gravity-corrected black holes is also discussed
Do stringy corrections stabilize coloured black holes?
We consider hairy black hole solutions of Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton theory,
coupled to a Gauss-Bonnet curvature term, and we study their stability under
small, spacetime-dependent perturbations. We demonstrate that the stringy
corrections do not remove the sphaleronic instabilities of the coloured black
holes with the number of unstable modes being equal to the number of nodes of
the background gauge function. In the gravitational sector, and in the limit of
an infinitely large horizon, the coloured black holes are also found to be
unstable. Similar behaviour is exhibited by the magnetically charged black
holes while the bulk of the neutral black holes are proven to be stable under
small, gauge-dependent perturbations. Finally, the electrically charged black
holes are found to be characterized only by the existence of a gravitational
sector of perturbations. As in the case of neutral black holes, we demonstrate
that for the bulk of electrically charged black holes no unstable modes arise
in this sector.Comment: 17 pages, Revtex, comments and a reference added, version to appear
in Physical Review
Regular and Black Hole Solutions in the Einstein-Skyrme Theory with Negative Cosmological Constant
We study spherically symmetric regular and black hole solutions in the
Einstein-Skyrme theory with a negative cosmological constant. The Skyrme field
configuration depends on the value of the cosmological constant in a similar
manner to effectively varying the gravitational constant. We find the maximum
value of the cosmological constant above which there exists no solution. The
properties of the solutions are discussed in comparison with the asymptotically
flat solutions. The stability is investigated in detail by solving the linearly
perturbed equation numerically. We show that there exists a critical value of
the cosmological constant above which the solution in the branch representing
unstable configuration in the asymptotically flat spacetime turns to be
linearly stable.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, comments and one reference added, to appear in
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