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Blackfolds
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 10 Jun 2011
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The authors' main claim This is an introduction to the blackfold effective worldvolume theory for the dynamics of black branes, as well as its use as an approximate method for the construction of new black hole solutions.
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This is an introduction to the blackfold effective worldvolume theory for the dynamics of black branes, as well as its use as an approximate method for the construction of new black hole solutions. We also explain how the theory is useful for the analysis of dynamical, non-stationary situations, in particular of the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black branes.
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| s1 | We also explain how the theory is useful for the analysis of dynamical, non-stationary situations, in particular of the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black branes. | contribution 0.95 | 0.59 | 0.10 | asserted 0.99 |
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This is an introduction to the blackfold effective worldvolume theory for the dynamics of black branes, as well as its use as an approximate method for the construction of new black hole solutions. We also explain how the theory is useful for the analysis of dynamical, non-stationary situations, in particular of the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black branes.
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18 arXiv papers cite this in 19 sentences
Papers citing it · 7 sentences without a confident label
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This corresponds to the leading order blackfold method [ref] , which thus provides us with a tool [Reviews include [ref] and [ref] gives a more general derivation of the blackfold effective theory.
Null-Wave Giant Gravitons from Thermal Spinning Brane Probes · Introduction · 0.86
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Even within the long-wavelength regime there are tantalizing similarities with the blackfold approach [ref] , where one considers hypersurfaces which have intrinsic as well as extrinsic dynamics.
CFT dual of the AdS Dirichlet problem: Fluid/Gravity on cut-off surfaces · Discussion · 0.89
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Black branes whose worldvolume is bent into the shape of a submanifold of a background spacetime have been named blackfolds [ref] .
The thermal properties of blackfold and calculation of stress energy tensor · General properties of blackfolds · 0.85
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In higher dimensions, there is a menagerie of other black hole solutions that do not have spherical horizons, such as black rings, black saturns, black helical rings, di-rings, and bicycling black rings, as well as more general blackfolds [ref] .
A Distorted Black Ring · Introduction · 0.97
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Likewise an attempt to understand higher dimensional black holes led to the construction of the blackfold effective field theory approach to gravity [ref] ( see [ref] for a review), wherein it was shown that the world-volume dynamics of extended black objects is modeled at the leading order in a gradient expansion as hydrodynamics [ref] .
Hydrodynamic Regimes of Spinning Black D3-Branes · Introduction · 0.91
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It can be obtained as a generalization of the ADM mass, or equivalently, from the Brown-York quasilocal stress-energy tensor [ref] .
Quasilocal Energy and Conserved Charges Derived from the Gravitational Action · Effective stress-energy tensor · 0.83
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For an ultraspinning black hole the radii of the horizon in directions transverse and parallel to the rotation plane are [ref] r_⊥^MP→r_+cosθ , r_^MP →a , where $θ$ is the polar angle on the horizon.
Instability of Ultra-Spinning Black Holes · Myers-Perry black hole as a blackfold disk · 0.85
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For the neutral black brane in asymptotically flat space this calculation has been carried out in [ref] , with the result that η=s/4π , ζ=s/2π(1/p-v_s^2) , where $s$ is the entropy density of the black brane [ref] and $v_s$ the speed of sound [ref]. \end{equation}
Black Brane Viscosity and the Gregory-Laflamme Instability · Viscous damping · 0.96
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[ref] and [ref] provide evidence that this is true, respectively, for extrinsic and intrinsic deformations.
The Phase Structure of Higher-Dimensional Black Rings and Black Holes · Blackfold as a black hole · 1.00
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[ref] and [ref] provide evidence that this is true, respectively, for extrinsic and intrinsic deformations.
Black Brane Viscosity and the Gregory-Laflamme Instability · Blackfold as a black hole · 1.00
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The black hole rigidity theorem of [ref] requires that stationary non-static black holes have at least one such isometry, and ref.
A Higher Dimensional Stationary Rotating Black Hole Must be Axisymmetric · Maximal symmetry breaking and saturation of the rigidity theorem · 0.81
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The black hole rigidity theorem of [ref] requires that stationary non-static black holes have at least one such isometry, and ref.
Symmetries of Higher Dimensional Black Holes · Maximal symmetry breaking and saturation of the rigidity theorem · 0.81
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The method of matched asymptotic expansions (or the closely related classical effective theory of [ref] ) provides the conceptual backdrop to the blackfold approach, but at the practical level we will remain at the leading order approximation where the black brane is a `test brane' in a background spacetime.
An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Extended Objects · Effective theory for black hole motion · 0.95
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