Spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes at the approach to extremality

We study static, spherically symmetric and electrically charged black hole solutions in a quadratic Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity model. Very similar to the uncharged case, black holes undergo spontaneous scalarization for sufficiently large scalar-tensor coupling γ – a phenomenon attributed...

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Main Authors: Yves Brihaye, Betti Hartmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319302023