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hep-th2013★ 18 cited

Thermodynamic and classical instability of AdS black holes in fourth-order gravity

Yun Soo Myung, Taeyoon Moon

We study thermodynamic and classical instability of AdS black holes in fourth-order gravity. These include the BTZ black hole in new massive gravity, Schwarzschild-AdS black hole,…

hep-th2013★ 10 cited

Gregory-Laflamme instability of BTZ black hole in new massive gravity

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We find the Gregory-Laflamme -mode instability of the non-rotating BTZ black hole in new massive gravity. This instability shows that the BTZ black hole could not exist as a sta…

hep-th2013★ 6 cited

Quantization of n coupled scalar field theory

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

We study a model of n coupled scalar fields in Minkowski spacetime where all masses degenerate, which is considered as a toy model of polycritical gravity on AdS spacetime. We quan…

hep-th2013

Quasinormal frequencies of a massless scalar in the hidden Kerr/CFT proposal

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

The hidden Kerr/CFT proposal implies that the massless scalar wave equation in the near-region and low-frequency limit respects a hidden SL(2,R)SL(2,R) invariance in the Ke…

hep-th2013★ 4 cited

BRST quantization of a sixth-order derivative scalar field theory

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

We study a sixth order derivative scalar field model in Minkowski spacetime as a toy model of higher-derivative critical gravity theories. This model is consistently quantized when…

hep-th2013★ 2 cited

Stability of the massive graviton around a BTZ black hole in three dimensions

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We investigate the massive graviton stability of the BTZ black hole obtained from three dimensional massive gravities which are classified into the parity-even and parity-odd gravi…

hep-th2013★ 4 cited

Modified Brans-Dicke theory with space-time anisotropic parameters

Taeyoon Moon, Phillial Oh

We consider the ADM formalism of the Brans-Dicke theory and propose an anisotropic extension of the theory by introducing five free parameters. We find that the resulting theory re…

hep-th2013

A massive graviton in topologically new massive gravity

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

We investigate the topologically new massive gravity in three dimensions. It turns out that a single massive mode is propagating in the flat spacetime, comparing to the conformal C…

hep-th2012★ 9 cited

Rank-n logarithmic conformal field theory in the BTZ black hole

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We construct the rank- finite temperature logarithmic conformal field theory (LCFT) starting from the -coupled scalar field theory in the BTZ black hole background. Its zero…

hep-th2012★ 4 cited

Quasinormal frequencies using the hidden conformal symmetry of the Schwarzschild black hole

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

We show that the hidden conformal symmetry of the Schwarzschild black hole is realized from the AdS sector of the AdS, but not from the Rindler spacetime which is…

hep-th2012★ 5 cited

Rank-3 finite temperature logarithmic conformal field theory

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We construct a rank-3 finite temperature logarithmic conformal field theory (LCFT) starting from a higher-derivative scalar field model in the BTZ black hole background. Its zero t…

hep-th2012★ 8 cited

Quasinormal modes around the BTZ black hole at the tricritical generalized massive gravity

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

Employing the operator method, we obtain log-square quasinormal modes and frequencies of a graviton around the BTZ black hole at the tricritical point of the generalized massive gr…

hep-th2012★ 3 cited

Schwinger Pair Production in Pulsed Electric Fields

Sang Pyo Kim, Hyung Won Lee, Remo Ruffini

We numerically investigate the temporal behavior and the structure of longitudinal momentum spectrum and the field polarity effect on pair production in pulsed electric fields in s…

hep-th2012

Tricritical gravity waves in the four-dimensional generalized massive gravity

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We construct a generalized massive gravity by combining quadratic curvature gravity with the Chern-Simons term in four dimensions. This may be a candidate for the parity-odd tricri…

hep-th2012★ 20 cited

Quasinormal modes and hidden conformal symmetry in the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

It is shown that the scalar wave equation in the near-horizon limit respects a hidden SL(2,R) invariance in the Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) black hole spacetimes. We use the SL(2,R) sy…

hep-th2012★ 7 cited

Absorption cross section in Lifshitz black hole

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We derive the absorption cross section of a minimally coupled scalar in the Lifshitz black hole obtained from the new massive gravity. The absorption cross section reduces to the h…

hep-th2012★ 3 cited

Logarithmic quasinormal modes of a spin-3 field around the BTZ black hole

Yong-Wan Kim, Yun Soo Myung, Young-Jai Park

Using the operator approach, we obtain logarithmic quasinormal modes and frequencies of a traceless spin-3 field around the BTZ black hole at the critical point of the spin-3 topol…

hep-th2012★ 36 cited

Quasinormal frequencies and thermodynamic quantities for the Lifshitz black holes

Yun Soo Myung, Taeyoon Moon

We find the connection between thermodynamic quantities and quasinormal frequencies in Lifshitz black holes. It is shown that the globally stable Lifshitz black holes have pure ima…

hep-th2012★ 17 cited

Phase transitions for the Lifshitz black holes

Yun Soo Myung

We study possibility of phase transitions between Lifshitz black holes and other configurations by using free energies explicitly. A phase transition between Lifshitz soliton and L…

hep-th2012★ 7 cited

Spin-3 quasinormal modes of BTZ black hole

Yun Soo Myung, Yong-Wan Kim, Young-Jai Park

Using the operator approach, we obtain quasinormal modes (QNMs) of BTZ black hole in spin-3 topologically massive gravity by solving the first-order equation of motion with the tra…

hep-th2011★ 5 cited

Critical gravity in the Chern-Simons modified gravity

Taeyoon Moon, Yun Soo Myung

We perform the perturbation analysis of the Chern-Simons modified gravity around the AdS spacetimes (its curvature radius ) to obtain the critical gravity. In general, we…

hep-th2011★ 6 cited

Future cosmological evolution in gravity using two equations of state parameters

Hyung Won Lee, Kyoung Yee Kim, Yun Soo Myung

We investigate the issues of future oscillations around the phantom divide for gravity. For this purpose, we introduce two types of energy density and pressure arisen from t…

hep-th2011★ 6 cited

Critical gravity on AdS2 spacetimes

Yun Soo Myung, Yong-Wan Kim, Young-Jai Park

We study the critical gravity in two dimensional AdS (AdS) spacetimes, which was obtained from the cosmological topologically massive gravity (TMG) in three dimensions by u…

hep-th2011★ 36 cited

Classical stability of BTZ black hole in new massive gravity

Yun Soo Myung, Yong-Wan Kim, Taeyoon Moon +1

We study the stability of the BTZ black hole in the new massive gravity. This is a nontrivial task because the linearized equation around the BTZ black hole background is a fourth…