Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole

Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant evade the known no-hair theorems and have nontrivial configurations around black holes. We focus on a scalar field that couples linearly to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and hence exhibits shift symmetry. We study its dynamical evolution and the forma...

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Main Authors: Benkel, Robert, Sotiriou, Thomas P., Witek, Helvi
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Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40879/
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description Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant evade the known no-hair theorems and have nontrivial configurations around black holes. We focus on a scalar field that couples linearly to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and hence exhibits shift symmetry. We study its dynamical evolution and the formation of scalar hair in a Schwarzschild background. We show that the evolution eventually settles to the known static hairy solutions in the appropriate limit.
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spelling nottingham-408792020-05-04T18:24:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40879/ Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole Benkel, Robert Sotiriou, Thomas P. Witek, Helvi Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant evade the known no-hair theorems and have nontrivial configurations around black holes. We focus on a scalar field that couples linearly to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and hence exhibits shift symmetry. We study its dynamical evolution and the formation of scalar hair in a Schwarzschild background. We show that the evolution eventually settles to the known static hairy solutions in the appropriate limit. American Physical Society 2016-12-28 Article PeerReviewed Benkel, Robert, Sotiriou, Thomas P. and Witek, Helvi (2016) Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole. Physical Review D, 94 (12). pp. 121503-1. ISSN 2470-0029 http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.121503 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.121503 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.121503
spellingShingle Benkel, Robert
Sotiriou, Thomas P.
Witek, Helvi
Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole
title Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole
title_full Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole
title_fullStr Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole
title_full_unstemmed Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole
title_short Dynamical scalar hair formation around a Schwarzschild black hole
title_sort dynamical scalar hair formation around a schwarzschild black hole
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40879/
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