Classical stability of black holes under massless Dirac perturbations

Abstract

In a D-dimensional maximally symmetric spacetime we simplify the massless Dirac equation to two decoupled wavelike equations with effective potentials. Furthermore in D-dimensional Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes we note that for the massless Dirac field moving in the region exterior to the event horizon at least one of the effective potentials is not positive definite. Therefore the classical stability of these black holes against this field is not guaranteed. Here with the help of the S-deformation method, we state their classical stability against the massless Dirac field, extend these results to maximally symmetric black holes, and comment on the applicability of our results to establish the stability with respect to other classical fields.

13 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Modern Physics D. Submitted for publication on May 31, 2012

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