Schwarzschild-Tangherlini Black Hole Research Articles

Large D gravity and low D string via α′ corrections

In this paper, we generalize the correspondence between large D gravity and low D string theory to the most general case, including its T-dual solutions. It is well-known that the large D limit of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole in gravity becomes a two-dimensional near-horizon geometry. Similarly, the large D limit of its T-dual solution, obtained by the Buscher rules, namely the string black hole with a naked singularity, reduces to a two-dimensional near-singularity geometry. Both of these geometries are described by the two-dimensional low-energy effective action of string theory and are related to each other by scale-factor duality. Secondly, we demonstrate that these near-horizon/singuglarity geometries, including complete α′ corrections, can be described by the two-dimensional Hohm-Zwiebach action. This approach allows for the derivation of non-perturbative and non-singular solutions. Furthermore, the Hohm-Zwiebach action provides a systematic way to investigate the α′-corrected near-horizon/singularity geometries of different kinds of black holes, which are difficult to achieve through the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model method.

Scattering and absorption by extra-dimensional black holes with GUP

In this paper, we consider the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole to investigate the process of scalar wave scattering by the black hole in a spacetime of (d+1) dimensions and also with the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). In this scenario, we analytically determine the phase shift and explore the effect of extra dimensions by calculating the differential scattering and absorption cross-section by applying the partial wave method at low and high-frequency limits. We show at high dimensions that the absorption is not zero as the mass parameter approaches zero.

Love numbers and Love symmetries for p-form and gravitational perturbations of higher-dimensional spherically symmetric black holes

The static Love numbers of four-dimensional asymptotically flat, isolated, general-relativistic black holes are known to be identically vanishing. The Love symmetry proposal suggests that such vanishings are addressed by selection rules following from the emergence of an enhanced \\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\mathrm{SL }\\left(2,{\\mathbb{R}}\\right)$$\\end{document} (“Love”) symmetry in the near-zone region; more specifically, it is the fact that the black hole perturbations belong to a highest-weight representation of this near-zone \\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\mathrm{SL }\\left(2,{\\mathbb{R}}\\right)$$\\end{document} symmetry, rather than the existence of the Love symmetry itself, that outputs the vanishings of the corresponding Love numbers. In higher spacetime dimensions, some towers of magic zeroes with regards to the black hole response problem have also been reported for scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole. Here, we extend these results by supplementing with p-form perturbations of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole. We furthermore analytically extract the static Love numbers and the leading order dissipation numbers associated with spin-0 scalar and spin-2 tensor-type tidal perturbations of the higher-dimensional Reissner-Nordström black hole. We find that Love symmetries exist and that the vanishings of the static Love numbers are captured by representation theory arguments even for these higher spin perturbations of the higher-dimensional spherically symmetric black holes of General Relativity. Interestingly, these near-zone \\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\mathrm{SL }\\left(2,{\\mathbb{R}}\\right)$$\\end{document} structures acquire extensions to Witt algebras. Our setup allows to also study the p-form response problem of a static spherically symmetric black hole in a generic theory of gravity. We perform explicit computations for some black holes in the presence of string-theoretic corrections and investigate under what geometric conditions Love symmetries emerge in the near-zone.

Greybody factors for higher-dimensional non-commutative geometry inspired black holes

Greybody factors are computed for massless fields of spin 0, 1/2, 1, and 2 emitted from higher-dimensional non-commutative geometry inspired black holes. Short-range potentials are used with path-ordered matrix exponentials to numerically calculate transmission coefficients. The resulting absorption cross sections and emission spectra are computed on the brane and compared with the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole. A non-commutative black hole at its maximum temperature in seven extra dimensions will radiate a particle flux and power of 0.72–0.81 and 0.75–0.81, respectively, times lower than a Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole of the same temperature. A non-commutative black hole at its maximum temperature in seven extra dimensions will radiate a particle flux and power of 0.64–0.72 and 0.60–0.64, respectively, times lower than a Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole of the same mass.

Absorption and scattering of a high dimensional non-commutative black hole

In this work, we investigate the scattering of massless plane scalar waves by the high dimensional non-commutative Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole. We use the partial wave approach to determine the scattering and absorption cross sections in the incident wavelength range. Our numerical results demonstrate that the bigger the non-commutative parameter, the smaller the maximum value of the related partial absorption cross section, however the tendency is slightly. We also discovered that when the non-commutative parameter is weak, the absorption cross section of the high dimensional black hole oscillates in the low frequency zone. The total absorption cross section oscillates around the geometrical optical limit in the high frequency range, and the scattering characteristics of black holes with various parameters are visibly different. The influence on the differential scattering cross section is particularly pronounced at large angles.

Accurate quasinormal modes of the five-dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes

The objective of this paper is to construct the accurate (say, to 11 decimal places) frequencies of the quasinormal modes of the five-dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole using three major techniques: the Hill determinant method, the continued fractions method, and the WKB-Pad\'e method and to discuss the limitations of each. It is shown that for the massless scalar, gravitational tensor, gravitational vector, and electromagnetic vector perturbations considered in this paper, the Hill determinant method and the method of continued fractions (both with the convergence acceleration) always give identical results, whereas the WKB-Pad\'e method gives the results that are amazingly accurate in most cases. Notable exception are the gravitational vector perturbations ($j=2$ and $\ensuremath{\ell}=2$), for which the WKB-Pad\'e approach apparently does not work. Here we have an interesting situation in which the WKB-based methods (WKB-Pad\'e and WKB--Borel--Le Roy) give the complex frequency that differs from the result obtained within the framework of the continued fraction method and the Hill determinant method. For the fundamental mode, deviation of the real part of frequency from the exact value is 0.5% whereas the deviation of the imaginary part is 2.7%. For $\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\ge}3$ the accuracy of the WKB results is similar again to the accuracy obtained for other perturbations. The case of the gravitational scalar perturbations is briefly discussed.

Gravitational Capture Cross-Section of Particles by Schwarzschild-Tangherlini Black Holes

We study the capture cross-section of massless (photon) and massive test particles by the Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole, which is a solution of pure general relativity in higher dimensional spacetime with R×SD−2 topology. It is shown that an extra dimension weakens the gravitational attraction of a black hole, and consequently, radii of all the characteristic circular orbits, such as the radius of a photonsphere decrease in the higher dimensions. Furthermore, it is shown that in higher dimensions, there are no stable and bounded circular orbits. The critical impact parameters and capture cross-sections of photons and massive particles are calculated for several higher dimensions and it is shown that they also decrease with increasing dimension. Moreover, we calculate the capture cross-section of relativistic and non-relativistic test particles in the higher dimensions.

Retraction: “Multipole hair of Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes” [J. Math. Phys. 60, 102502 (2019)

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Scalar field quasinormal modes of noncommutative high dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole spacetime with smeared matter sources

We investigate the massless scalar quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the noncommutative D-dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole spacetime in this paper. By using the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation method, the asymptotic iterative method (AIM) and the inverted potential method (IPM), we made a detail analysis of the massless scalar QNM frequencies by varying the general smeared matter distribution and the allowable characteristic parameters (k and θ) corresponding to different dimensions. It is found that the nonconvergence of the high order WKB approximation exists in the QNMs frequencies of scalar perturbation around the noncommutative D-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes. We conclude that the 3rd WKB result should be more reliable than those of the high order WKB method since our numerical results are also verified by the AIM method and the IPM method. In the dimensional range of 4≤D≤7, the scalar QNMs as a function of the different parameters (the noncommutative parameter θ, the smeared matter distribution parameter k, the multipole number l and the main node number n) are obtained. Moreover, we study the dynamical evolution of a scalar field in the background of the noncommutative high dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole.

Quasinormal modes, shadow, and greybody factors of 5D electrically charged Bardeen black holes

We study quasinormal modes (QNMs) in 5D electrically charged Bardeen black holes spacetime by considering the scalar and electromagnetic field perturbations. The black holes spacetime is an exact solution of Einstein gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics in five dimensions, which has nonsingular behavior. To calculate QNMs, we use the WKB approximation method up to sixth order. Due to the presence of electric charge $q_e > 0$, both the scalar and electromagnetic field perturbations decay more slowly when compared to the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes. We discover that the scalar field perturbations oscillate more rapidly when compared to the electromagnetic field perturbations. In terms of damping, the scalar field perturbations damp more quickly. Graphically we show that the transmission (reflection) coefficients decrease (increase) with an increase in the magnitude of the electric charge $q_e$. The emission of gravitational waves allows spacetime to undergo damped oscillations due to the nonzero value of the imaginary part, which is always negative. The imaginary part of the QNMs frequencies is continuously decreasing with an increase in the magnitude of the electric charge $q_e$ for a given mode ($l,n$). A connection between the QNMs frequencies and the black hole shadow, as well as the geometric cross-section in the eikonal limit, is also described.

Electric multipole fields of higher-dimensional massive bodies

It was shown in a recent paper [J. Math. Phys. 60, 102502 (2019)] that slowly lowering an electric charge into a Schwarzschild-Tangherlini (ST) black hole endows the final state with electric multipole fields, which implies the final state geometry is not Reissner-Nordstr\"om-Tangherlini in nature. This conclusion departs from the four-dimensional case in which the no-hair theorem (NHT) requires the final state to be a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. To better understand this discrepancy clearly requires a deeper understanding of the origin of the multipole hair in the higher-dimensional case. In this paper, we advance the conjecture that charged, static, and asymptotically-flat higher-dimensional black holes can acquire electric multipole hair only after they form. This supposition derives from studying the asymptotic behavior of the field of a multipole charge onto which a massive and hyperspherical shell with an exterior ST geometry is collapsing. In the mathematical limit as the shell approaches its ST radius, we find that the multipole fields (except the monopole) vanish. This implies that the only information of an arbitrary (but finite) charge distribution inside the collapsing shell that is available to an asymptotic observer is the total electric charge. Our results yield considerable insight into how higher-dimensional black holes acquire electric multipole hair, and also imply that, in four dimensions, the fadeaway of multipole moments during gravitational collapse is not strictly because of the NHT.

Trapped photons in Schwarzschild–Tangherlini spacetimes

We study the set of trapped photons outside the event horizon of Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black holes in dimension . We prove that the only trapped photons are those with constant Boyer–Lindquist coordinate radius. We then identify the set of trapped photons as a submanifold of the tangent bundle of the spacetime, and prove that this submanifold has topology , as suggested by Cederbaum–Jahns.

Multipole hair of Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes

We study the field of an electric point charge that is slowly lowered into an n + 1 dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole. We find that if n > 3, then countably infinite nonzero multipole moments manifest to observers outside the event horizon as the charge falls in. This suggests the final state of the black hole is not characterized by a Reissner-Nordström-Tangherlini geometry. Instead, for odd n, the final state either possesses a degenerate horizon, undergoes a discontinuous topological transformation during the infall of the charge, or both. For even n, the final state is not guaranteed to be asymptotically flat.The author of the article agrees to the retraction of the article effective May 5, 2021.

Compatibility complexes of overdetermined PDEs of finite type, with applications to the Killing equation

In linearized gravity, two linearized metrics are considered gauge-equivalent, , when they differ by the image of the Killing operator, . A universal (or complete) compatibility operator for K is a differential operator K1 such that and any other operator annihilating K must factor through K1. The components of K1 can be interpreted as a complete (or generating) set of local gauge-invariant observables in linearized gravity. By appealing to known results in the formal theory of overdetermined PDEs and basic notions from homological algebra, we solve the problem of constructing the Killing compatibility operator K1 on an arbitrary background geometry, as well as of extending it to a full compatibility complex Ki (), meaning that for each Ki the operator Ki+1 is its universal compatibility operator. Our solution is practical enough that we apply it explicitly in two examples, giving the first construction of full compatibility complexes for the Killing operator on these geometries. The first example consists of the cosmological FLRW spacetimes, in any dimension. The second consists of a generalization of the Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole spacetimes, also in any dimension. The generalization allows an arbitrary cosmological constant and the replacement of spherical symmetry by planar or pseudo-spherical symmetry.

Study of semiclassical instability of the Schwarzschild AdS black hole in the large D limit

We analyze the semiclassical stability of the Schwarzschild AdS black hole in the Euclidean partition function approach. We perform this computation in the large D limit and focus on scalar perturbations. We obtain the equations for non-spherically symmetric scalar perturbations in a simple form. For a class of perturbations stability is demonstrated by the S-deformation method. For some other classes we rule out unstable modes of . We also analyze the spherically symmetric perturbations and demonstrate the appearance of an unstable mode for small black holes in the large D limit. We obtain an expression for the eigenvalue corresponding to the unstable mode to next to leading order in a 1/D expansion. This result agrees with a previously obtained numerical bound on this eigenvalue. For cosmological constant zero, our answer matches a previous result obtained for the corresponding eigenvalue for the D dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole to next to leading order in a 1/D expansion.

Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes in five-dimensional massive (bi-)gravity

We will present main results of our recent investigations on the existence of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes in a five-dimensional (nonlinear) massive gravity as well as in its dynamical extension, a five-dimensional massive bi-gravity. In particular, we will show how to use the well-known Cayley-Hamilton theorem to construct five-and higher dimensional massive graviton terms. Then, we will present the proof of the existence of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes in the five-dimensional massive (bi-)gravity.

Shadow of Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black holes

We study the shadow cast by the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black hole, and analytically calculate the influence of extra dimensions on the shadow of a black hole. A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field which is known to be a dark zone covered by a circle for a Schwarzschild black hole. We demonstrate that the null geodesic equation can be integrated by Hamilton–Jacobi approach, which enable us to investigate the shadow cast by the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black holes. Interestingly, it turns out that, for fixed values of the mass parameter, the shadow in higher-dimensional spacetimes are smaller when compared with four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole. Further, the shadows of higher-dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini black holes are concentric circles with radius of the circle decreases with increase in D. We visualize the photon regions and the shadows in various dimensions for different values of the parameters, and the energy emission rates are is also investigated. Our results, in the limit D=4, reduced exactly to vis-à-vis Schwarzschild black hole case.

Classical corrections to black hole entropy in d dimensions: A rear window to quantum gravity?

We provide a simple derivation of the corrections for Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole entropy without knowing the details of quantum gravity. We will follow Bekenstein, Wheeler and Jaynes ideas, using summations techniques without calculus approximations, to directly find logarithmic corrections to well-known entropy formula for black holes. Our approach is free from pathological behaviour giving negative entropy for small values of black hole mass $M$. With the aid of Universality principle we will argue that this purely classical approach could open a window for exploring properties of quantum gravity.

Charged gravastars in higher dimensions

We explore possibility to find out a new model of gravastars in the extended $D$-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell spacetime. The class of solutions as obtained by Mazur and Mottola of a neutral gravastar \cite{Mazur2001,Mazur2004} have been observed as an alternative to $D$-dimensional versions of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole. To tackle the spherical system in a convenient way we have configured that the gravastar consists of three distinct regions with different equations of state as follows: [I] Interior region $0 \leq r < r_1$,$\rho = -p$, [II] Thin shell region $r_1 \leq r < r_2$,$\rho = p$, and [III] Exterior region $r_2 < r$,$\rho = p =0$. The outer region of this gravastar model therefore corresponds to a higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m black hole. In connection to this junction conditions are provided and therefore we have formulated mass and the related Equation of State of the gravastar. It has been shown that the model satisfies all the requirements of the physical features. However, overall observational survey of the results also provide probable indication of non-applicability of higher dimensional approach for construction of a gravastar with or without charge from an ordinary $4$-dimensional seed as far as physical ground is concerned.

Black hole quantum vacuum polarization in higher dimensions

The goal of this paper is to extend to higher dimensionality the methods and computations of vacuum polarization effects in black hole spacetimes. We focus our attention on the case of five dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes, for which we adapt the general method initially developed by Candelas and later refined by Anderson and others. We make use of point splitting regularization and of the WKB approximation to extract the divergences occuring in the coincidence limit of the Green function and, after calculating the counter-terms using the Schwinger - De Witt expansion, we explicitly prove the cancellation of the divergences and the regularity of the vacuum polarization once counter-terms are added up. We finally handle numerically the renormalized expression of the vacuum polarization. As a check on the method we also prove the regularity of the vacuum polarization in the six dimensional case in the large mass limit.