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Holographic Signatures of Critical Collapse
Paul M. Chesler, Benson Way
Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse exhibit the universal features of self-similarity, critical scaling, and the appearance of a naked singularity. We study critical colla…
Lumpy AdS S Black Holes and Black Belts
Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way
Sufficiently small Schwarzschild black holes in global AdSS are Gregory-Laflamme unstable. We construct new families of black hole solutions that bifurcate from the o…
Shock Formation in Lovelock Theories
Harvey S. Reall, Norihiro Tanahashi, Benson Way
We argue that Lovelock theories of gravity suffer from shock formation, unlike General Relativity. We consider the propagation of (i) a discontinuity in curvature, and (ii) weak, h…
Causality and Hyperbolicity of Lovelock Theories
Harvey S. Reall, Norihiro Tanahashi, Benson Way
In Lovelock theories, gravity can travel faster or slower than light. The causal structure is determined by the characteristic hypersurfaces. We generalise a recent result of Izumi…
Black Droplets
Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way
Black droplets and black funnels are gravitational duals to states of a large N, strongly coupled CFT on a fixed black hole background. We numerically construct black droplets corr…