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Smooth extremal horizons are the exception, not the rule
Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos
We show that the general charged, rotating black hole in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory has a singular extremal limit. Only the known analytic solutions with exactly zero…
Sudden breakdown of effective field theory near cool Kerr-Newman black holes
Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Grant N. Remmen +1
It was recently shown that (near-)extremal Kerr black holes are sensitive probes of small higher-derivative corrections to general relativity. In particular, these corrections prod…
Extremal Kerr black holes as amplifiers of new physics
Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Grant N. Remmen +1
We show that extremal Kerr black holes are sensitive probes of new physics. Stringy or quantum corrections to general relativity are expected to generate higher-curvature terms in…
A deformed IR: a new IR fixed point for four-dimensional holographic theories
Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Jorge E. Santos
In holography, the IR behavior of a quantum system at nonzero density is described by the near horizon geometry of an extremal charged black hole. It is commonly believed that for…
Almost all extremal black holes in AdS are singular
Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Jorge E. Santos
We investigate the geometry near the horizon of a generic, four-dimensional extremal black hole. When the cosmological constant is negative, we show that (in almost all cases) tida…
Bouncing inside the horizon and scrambling delays
Gary T. Horowitz, Henry Leung, Leonel Queimada +1
We study charged perturbations of the thermofield double state dual to a charged AdS black hole. We model the perturbation by a massless charged shell in the bulk. Unlike the neutr…