Evidence for an electrifying violation of cosmic censorship. (8th September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Horowitz, Gary T; Santos, Jorge E; Way, Benson
• Is Part Of: Classical and quantum gravity. Volume 33:Number 19(2016:Oct.)
• Publication Date: 2016-09-08
• Subjects: violation of cosmic censorship -- gauge-gravity duality -- black holes; Quantum gravity -- Periodicals; Gravitation -- Periodicals; Relativity (Physics) -- Periodicals; Space and time -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 521.1
• DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/19/195007
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-9381

Abstract

Abstract: We present a plausible counterexample to cosmic censorship in four-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory with asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions. Smooth initial data evolves to a region of arbitrarily large curvature that is visible to distant observers. Our example is based on a holographic model of an electrically charged, localised defect which was previously studied at zero temperature. We partially extend those results to nonzero temperatures.