Black holes in Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar theory
Yun Soo Myung, De-Cheng Zou

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the stability of Schwarzschild black holes in Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar theories, finding instability and scalarization for one scalar coupling but stability for the other.
Contribution
It introduces two quadratic scalar couplings to these theories and investigates their effects on black hole stability, revealing conditions for scalarization.
Findings
Schwarzschild black hole unstable against φ₁ perturbation
Black hole stable against φ₂ and metric perturbations
Scalarized black holes form due to φ₁ instability
Abstract
We carry out the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole in Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar theory. Here, we introduce two quadratic scalar couplings () to Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons terms, where the former term is parity-even, while the latter one is parity-odd. The perturbation equation for the scalar is the Klein-Gordon equation with an effective mass, while the perturbation equation for is coupled to the parity-odd metric perturbation, providing a system of two coupled equations. It turns out that the Schwarzschild black hole is unstable against perturbation, leading to scalarized black holes, while the black hole is stable against and metric perturbations, implying no scalarized black holes.
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**Black holes in Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar theory
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Yun Soo Myunga111e-mail address: [email protected] and De-Cheng Zoua,b222e-mail address: [email protected]
aInstitute of Basic Sciences and Department of Computer Simulation,
Inje University, Gimhae 50834, Korea
bCenter for Gravitation and Cosmology and College of Physical Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Abstract
We carry out the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole in Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar theory. Here, we introduce two quadratic scalar couplings () to Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons terms, where the former term is parity-even, while the latter one is parity-odd. The perturbation equation for the scalar is the Klein-Gordon equation with an effective mass, while the perturbation equation for is coupled to the parity-odd metric perturbation, providing a system of two coupled equations. It turns out that the Schwarzschild black hole is unstable against perturbation, leading to scalarized black holes, while the black hole is stable against and metric perturbations, implying no scalarized black holes.
1 Introduction
Black holes with scalar hair (spontaneous scalarization) are obtained dynamically in a different class of models where the scalar field couples either to the topological invariant, Gauss-Bonnet term [1, 2, 3] or to Maxwell kinetic term [4, 5, 6] with a coupling function . In this case, the appearance of static scalarized solutions is closely connected to the instability of Schwarzschild [7] or Reissner-Nordström solution [8] without scalar hair. Here, the coupling constant plays the role of a spectral parameter (effective mass) in the linearized equation. However, the other topological invariant of Chern-Simon term does not activate the static scalarized black hole, but it could develop the scalarized Kerr solution with linear coupling [9] and scalarized Schwarzschild-NUT solution with quadratic coupling [10]. It was known that the Chern-Simons term is a parity-odd (violating) one and thus, non-rotating black holes are not modified because these are parity-even solution [11]. The Kerr and Schwarzschild-NUT solutions are parity-odd and thus, they do acquire modifications from the Chern-Simons term. We note that Schwarzschild black hole was stable in the Einstein-Chern-Simons gravity with linear coupling [12, 13, 14, 15], which may explain why scalarized static black holes do not exist.
Similarly, cosmology with the Gauss-Bonnet term could affect the background evolution of parity-even and results in the tensor-to-scalar ratio , leading to violation of the consistency relation [16, 17]. On the other hand, the Chern-Simons term did not appear in the background and scalar perturbations, but this appears in tensor perturbations as circularly polarized modes because these modes belong to the parity-odd case.
An effective action including both topological invariants with different linear couplings could be obtained from some superstring models [18] and the heterotic strings [19]. Inspired by this, we introduce a new action (1) which includes both topological invariants with different quadratic couplings. We will use this new action to investigate the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole which is closely related to the spontaneous scalarization of black hole. This will reveal the hidden roles of two topological invariants on the scalarization process.
To make all things clear, we mention our notations. We will use natural units of with signature . The Riemann, Ricci tensor, and Levi-Civita tensor are defined by
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2 GBCSS theory
We introduce newly the Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons-scalar (GBCSS) theory in four dimensions whose action is given by
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where is the Gauss-Bonnet term
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and is the Chern-Simons term
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Here the dual Ricci tensor is defined by
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From now on, we call the EGBS (ECSS) theory for the case of . It is worth noting that the mass dimensions of coupling constants are given by . Although both and are topological (total derivatives) in four dimensions, but they become dynamical due to the coupling to the scalars. However, there exists a difference between them. The Gauss-Bonnet term affects the property of the static solutions of parity-even source, while the Chern-Simons term gives different results only in the rotating solution of parity-odd source. This explains that the scalarized Schwarzschild black holes could be found from the Gauss-Bonnet coupling, but they might not be found from the Chern-Simons coupling. In other words, the Chern-Simons term does not activate a scalar monopole field in the static black hole spacetime. Also, the appearance of scalarized black holes is closely related to the instability of scalar-free black hole. Hence, it is important to investigate the stability of black holes without scalar hair in the GBCSS theory.
Varying for , and lead to the three equations as
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where -tensor takes the form
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which corresponds to the divergence-free part of the Riemann tensor (). Here the Cotton tensor is given by
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Using the trace of (5)
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we rewrite (5) as the Ricci-tensor equation
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which may be suitable for analyzing the stability of the black holes.
Choosing the background quantities (by denoting the “overbar”)
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Eqs.(5)-(7) admit the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild spacetime
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with the metric function
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In this case, one has
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Now let us introduce the perturbations around the background as
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The linearized equation to (2) can be written by
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where and take the forms
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We observe from (7) and (19) that gives the same solution (13), but it gives no coupling to the perturbed Einstein equation. Also, we note from (6) that ‘’ does not admit solution for the coupling. From Eqs.(6) and (7), we obtain the linearized scalar equation for
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while couples to the metric perturbation as
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Before we proceed, we would like to focus on two linearized theories. In the single scalar coupling of , choosing provides the Schwarzschild solution. However, the linearized equations around the black hole lead to
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which lead to the linearized version for the EGBS theory because the linearized Cotton term () decouples from (22).
For the other case of linear couplings ( and ) with possessing a shift symmetry of and , the Schwarzschild black hole (13) is not a solution because of non-zero Gauss-Bonnet term. In the ECSS (linear coupling) theory, it turned out that the Schwarzschild black hole is stable against the metric and scalar perturbations [12, 13, 14, 15].
3 Stability Analysis
3.1 Instability of
We wish to start with stability analysis by noting that is completely decoupled from other fields. Using the tortoise coordinate () and with spherical harmonics, the linearized equation (20) becomes
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where the potential is given by
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with . We note that the last term in (25) plays the role of an effective mass with . This term contributes to potential large negatively near the horizon, while its contribution becomes small neglectfully as increases. From now on, we focus on the -mode of because it is responsible for analyzing the stability analysis and obtaining scalarized black holes. The -mode potential develops negative region outside the horizon, depending the value of coupling constant . The sufficient condition for the instability is given by
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However, (26) is not a necessary and sufficient condition for instability. To determine the threshold of instability precisely, one has to solve the linearized equation numerically
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which may allow an exponentially growing mode of as an unstable mode. We obtain the unstable bound for the scalar perturbation
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which implies that the threshold of instability is determined by , being greater than 3.098 (sufficient condition for instability). That is, the unstable bound for the coupling constant is given by
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which is smaller than the sufficient condition for instability ().
On the other hand, we solve the linearized equation (27) with to find a discrete spectrum of the coupling constant when obtaining static solutions: where we identify the first value with the threshold of instability. These solutions are labelled by the order number (fundamental branch), (excited branches) which is identified with the number of nodes for with . Actually, it may represent the scalarized black holes found when solving full equations (5)-(7). This implies that the appearance of scalarized black hole is closely related to the threshold of instability for Schwarzschild black hole.
3.2 Stability of and
The metric perturbation is classified according to the transformation properties under parity, namely odd sector () and even sector () as
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with symmetrizations. The form of is given by
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Plugging Eqs. (34) and (35) into Eq.(17), we find ten perturbation equations as appeared in Appendix. It is important to note that ten perturbation equations imply twenty constraints like
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where with are functions of () and with are functions of (). This implies that ten perturbation equations can be classified into two parties: odd-parity equations () and even-parity equations (). We emphasize that there are couplings between and in the odd-parity equations.
First of all, we consider the even-parity () because it corresponds to even-parity sector of Einstein gravity (). It is well known that this case reduces to a single second-order equation for a field defined by
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where
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Here, we obtain the Zerilli equation [20]
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where the Zerilli potential is given by
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All potentials for are always positive for whole range of , which implies that the even-parity perturbation is stable.
On the other hand, for odd-parity sector (), the first five equations () provide three relevant equations with :
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We note that all remaining equations with are redundant. Introducing a new field , (41)-(43) become one coupled second-order equation
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where represents the Regge-Wheeler potential [21] for odd-parity perturbation as
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Also, the linearized equation (21) for the scalar becomes a coupled second-order equation
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where denotes a potential for
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Eqs.(44) and (46) represent an important property of CS coupling to the scalar .
For -mode, one has a decoupled equation for from (46) as
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where the potential takes the form
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The -mode of is stable because is positive definite outside the horizon. The -mode equation leads to
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where the corresponding potential is given by
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Also, the -mode of is stable because is positive definite outside the horizon. Actually, the -mode is important because if one includes , it corresponds to the most prominent superradiant instability in the rotating black hole [15]. Furthermore, it proved that all higher modes with are stable by solving two coupled equations (44) and (46). The stability of Schwarzschild black hole in the Chern-Simons coupling is closely related to the *disappearance * of black holes with scalar hair . We will explore this connection in the next section.
4 Scalarized Black holes
Let us develop scalarized black hole solutions by making use of (5)-(7). Considering a spherically symmetric line element
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From (5), we display its and components
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Two scalar equations (6) and (7) are given by
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In the above, we observe the absence of Chern-Simons terms (), implying that there is no source to develop scalar hair . We note that (53)-(56) with reduce to the corresponding equations in Ref. [22], where black holes with scalar hair was obtained in the EGBS theory.
In this section, we are interested in obtaining scalarized black holes with two scalar hairs and . Near the horizon, one may consider power-series expansion of solution in terms of () as
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where are constant coefficients. Substituting (4) into (53)-(56), , and can be solved for , and as
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and so on. does not display here because of its complicated form. Hence, we check that the scalar field becomes trivial because it is const. This means that it is hard to construct scalarized black holes with scalar hair . Actually, the scalarized black hole is found in Fig. 1. Here, we choose a rescaling of such that approaches rather than 1 for clarity. We note that even if one introduces a mass term of in the action (1), any scalarized black holes with are not allowed because there is no way of escaping from the no-hair theorem [23].
Finally, let us discuss the stability issue of the scalarized black hole in the GBCSS theory. As was mention in [24], the difference between exponential and quadratic couplings in the EGBS theory is that the scalarized black hole is stable for the exponential coupling, while the scalarized black hole is unstable for the quadratic coupling. Recently, it is shown that the quadratic term controls the onset of the instability giving the scalarized black hole, while the higher-order coupling terms including the exponential coupling control the nonlinearities quenching the instability and thus, control the stability of the black hole [25]. Therefore, we expect that the scalarized black hole is unstable against perturbations in the GBCSS theory since this theory has a quadratic coupling term.
5 Discussions
We state that the appearance of scalarized black holes is directly related to the instability of black hole without scalar hair. We have found that the Schwarzschild (static) black hole is unstable against the -mode perturbation of coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet term, implying the appearance of scalarized black holes in the EGBS theory. On the other hand, the static black hole is stable against all modes of coupled to the Chern-Simons term, implying the disappearance of scalarized black holes in the ECSS theory. This is so because the Chern-Simons term could not activate a scalar monopole field in the static black hole spacetime. This explains why the scalarized static black holes could not be found in the ECSS theory.
In the single scalar coupling of , choosing provides the Schwarzschild solution. In this case, the linearized equations around the black hole lead to those of the EGBS theory, suggesting the appearance of scalarized black holes. In this case, the role of the Chern-Simons term disappears.
Furthermore, we note that the Kerr black hole with scalar hair could be obtained from the superradiant instability of Kerr black hole in the Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory [26]. Here the threshold instability is given by the modes of a perturbed scalar and these clouds can be promoted to Kerr with scalar hair in the full Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory. Also, the non-perturbative spinning black holes could be obtained from the ECSS (linear coupling) theory [9]. Its linearized scalar equation takes the form of in the Kerr black hole background. In this case, however, we do not know the stability issue of Kerr black hole and thus, connection between non-perturbative spinning black holes and instability of Kerr black hole is missed.
In our model (1), we may obtain the Kerr black hole solution to (5)-(7) when setting with because
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in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. In this case, the linearized Einstein equation () is completely decoupled from the perturbed scalar , indicating no instability from metric perturbations. A relevant equation is the linearized scalar equation of , which is a Teukolsky-like equation with an effective mass of . For , recently, the Kerr black hole may be shown to be unstable against the and modes of for the spin parameter [27]. The authors in [27] insisted that this modal instability is nothing to do with the superradiant instability and thus, scalarized Kerr black holes would be found from this model. These would-be solutions should be compared to scalarized Kerr black holes obtained in Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory [26]. Here, the spontaneous scalarization may be possible because the Chern-Simons term gives different results only in the rotating solution of parity-odd source. However, one unclear issue is why the -mode of was not chosen for the modal stability analysis in this approach.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MOE) (No. NRF-2017R1A2B4002057).
Appendix: Ten perturbation equations
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The perturbation equations (60) imply twenty constraints like
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The explicit forms of and are as follows:
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with .
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