Black hole formation at the correspondence point

Authors

Norihiro Izuka, Kyoto University
Daniel N. Kabat, CUNY Lehman CollegeFollow
Roy Shubho, Indian Institute of Science
Debajyoti Sarkar, CUNY Graduate Center

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Abstract

We study the process of bound state formation in a D-brane collision. We consider two mechanisms for bound state formation. The first, operative at weak coupling in the worldvolume gauge theory, is pair creation of W-bosons. The second, operative at strong coupling, corresponds to formation of a large black hole in the dual supergravity. These two processes agree qualitatively at intermediate coupling, in accord with the correspondence principle of Horowitz and Polchinski. We show that the size of the bound state and timescale for formation of a bound state agree at the correspondence point. The timescale involves matching a parametric resonance in the gauge theory to a quasinormal mode in supergravity.

Comments

This work was originally published in Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, available at DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.126010