A scalar field instability of rotating and charged black holes in (4+1)-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space-time

Abstract

We study the stability of static as well as of rotating and charged black holes in (4+1)-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space-time which possess spherical horizon topology. We observe an instability related to the condensation of a charged, tachyonic scalar field and construct “hairy” black hole solutions of the full non-linear system of coupled Einstein, Maxwell and scalar field equations. We observe that the limiting solution for small horizon radius is either a hairy soliton solution or a singular solution that is not a regular extremal solution. Within the context of the gauge/gravity duality the condensation of the scalar field describes a holographic conductor/superconductor phase transition on the surface of a sphere.