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Dual dressed black holes as the end point of the charged superradiant instability in N=4 Yang Mills

Sunjin Choi, Diksha Jain, Seok Kim, Vineeth Krishna, Eunwoo Lee, Shiraz Minwalla, Chintan Patel

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SciPost Phys. 18, 137 (2025) · published 25 April 2025

Abstract

Charged Black holes in AdS5×S5 suffer from superradiant instabilities over a range of energies. Hairy black hole solutions (constructed within gauged supergravity) have previously been proposed as endpoints to this instability. We demonstrate that these hairy black holes are themselves unstable to the emission of large dual giant gravitons. We propose that the endpoint to this instability is given by Dual Dressed Black Holes (DDBH)s; configurations consisting of one, two, or three very large dual giant gravitons surrounding a core AdS black hole with one, two, or three SO(6) chemical potentials equal to unity. The dual giants each live at AdS radial coordinates of order N and each carry charge of order N2. The large separation makes DDBHs a very weakly interacting mix of their components and allows for a simple computation of their thermodynamics. We conjecture that DDBHs dominate the phase diagram of N=4 Yang-Mills over a range of energies around the BPS plane, and provide an explicit construction of this phase diagram, briefly discussing the interplay with supersymmetry. We develop the quantum description of dual giants around black hole backgrounds and explicitly verify that DDBHs are stable to potential tunneling instabilities, precisely when the chemical potentials of the core black holes equal unity. We also construct the 10-dimensional DDBH bulk solutions.


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