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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 11: Hauptvorträge Schwarze Löcher und Felder (gemeinsam mit MP)

GR 11.3: Invited Talk

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 17:45–18:15, ZHG 002

Black holes in su(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory: hair, fur and superconducting horizons — •Elizabeth Winstanley — Consortium for Fundamental Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield. S3 7RH United Kingdom

Black hole solutions of general relativity coupled to an su(N) Yang-Mills gauge field have been studied for over 20 years. In this talk we focus on black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory in four-dimensional, asymptotically anti-de Sitter space, with a negative cosmological constant. We emphasize three aspects of these black holes:

(a) the existence of stable black holes in anti-de Sitter space with abundant Yang-Mills hair;

(b) how these hairy black holes may be characterized by non-Abelian charges at infinity;

(c) planar black holes with superconducting horizons.