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A Menagerie of Hairy Black Holes

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2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics

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According to the no-hair conjecture, equilibrium black holes are simple objects, completely determined by global charges which can be measured at infinity. This is the case in Einstein-Maxwell theory due to beautiful uniqueness theorems. However, the no-hair conjecture is not true in general, and there is now a plethora of matter models possessing hairy black hole solutions. In this note we focus on one such matter model: Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) theory, and restrict our attention to four-dimensional, static, non-rotating black holes for simplicity. We outline some of the menagerie of EYM solutions in both asymptotically flat and asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. We attempt to make sense of this black hole zoo in terms of Bizon’s modified no-hair conjecture.

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Many thanks to my collaborators, joint work with whom is the subject of this note: Erik Baxter, Marc Helbling, Brien Nolan and Ben Shepherd. This work is supported by the Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics under STFC grant ST/L000520/1.

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  1. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

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  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Matthias Kaminski

  3. Seaver Science Center, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jonas Mureika

  4. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

    Marcus Bleicher

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Winstanley, E. (2018). A Menagerie of Hairy Black Holes. In: Nicolini, P., Kaminski, M., Mureika, J., Bleicher, M. (eds) 2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94256-8_3

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