On the search for multicenter AdS black holes from M-theory

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics 2022-02, Vol.2022 (2), p.9-52, Article 9
• Main Authors: Monten, Ruben, Toldo, Chiara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: AdS-CFT Correspondence; Black holes; Black Holes in String Theory; Branes; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; D-Branes; Elementary Particles; Field theory (physics); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Halos; High energy physics; High Energy Physics - Theory; M theory; Nucleation; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Quantum theory; Regular Article - Theoretical Physics; Relativity; Relativity Theory; Spacetime; Stability analysis; String Theory; Super-gravity Models
• ISSN: 1029-8479; 1126-6708; 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2022)009

A bstract We study the effective potentials for various probe branes surrounding AdS 4 black holes with massive halos in consistent truncations of M-theory on the Sasaki-Einstein 7 manifolds Q 111 and M 111 . These probes are either M2 branes extended in spacetime or “particle-like” probes such as internally wrapped M2 branes and, upon reduction to type IIA String theory, D6 branes corresponding to baryon operators in the dual Chern-Simons theory. We find both global and local minima of the potential outside the horizon, indicating the existence of stable and metastable multicenter AdS black holes in the extreme mass ratio regime, at fixed temperature and charges. For the planar case, we also find an instability towards nucleation of spacetime-filling M2 branes. With this analysis, we address some open questions on the holographic description of glassy phases of matter.