Fragmentation of AdS5-Kerr black holes

Abstract

Black hole spacetimes asymptotic to five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime are of great interest in connection with the string-gauge duality. In the rotating case, such black holes tend to become unstable, in several different ways, if their specific angular momenta fall in certain ranges. Here we consider the well-known Emparan-Myers fragmentation instability for singly rotating AdS5-Kerr black holes, paying particular attention to the case where the specific angular momentum exceeds the asymptotic AdS5 curvature length scale.