An instability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dias, Oscar J C ^a   Figueras, Pau ^b   Monteiro, Ricardo ^a   Reall, Harvey S ^a   Santos, Jorge E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black holes; Black holes in string theory; Classical theories of gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954993662     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)076     Document Type: Article

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