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Hovering Black Holes from Charged Defects
Gary T. Horowitz, Nabil Iqbal, Jorge E. Santos +1
We construct the holographic dual of an electrically charged, localised defect in a conformal field theory at strong coupling, by applying a spatially dependent chemical potential.…
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…
Rings, Ripples, and Rotation: Connecting Black Holes to Black Rings
Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way
Singly-spinning Myers-Perry black holes in d>5 spacetime dimensions are unstable for sufficiently large angular momentum. We numerically construct (in d=6 and d=7) two new stationa…