Regular Seminar Sean Hartnoll (Cambridge)
at: 16:30 room H503 abstract: | Generalised black holes have a horizon given by an arbitrary Einstein manifold. I will describe a criterion for the classical stability of these black holes. Roughly, spherical horizons are stable but lemon-shaped horizons can be unstable. In Anti-de Sitter space, these black holes are dual to gauge theory on a curved background given by the same Einstein manifold. I will argue that the dual thermal field theory effect is a novel phase transition induced by inhomogeneous Casimir pressures and characterised by a condensation of pressure. |