Numerical evidence for universality in the excited instability spectrum of magnetically charged Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes

Abstract

It is well-known that the SU(2) Reissner-Nordstr\"om black-hole solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory are characterized by an infinite set of unstable (imaginary) eigenvalues $\{\omega_n(T_{\text{BH}})\}_{n=0}^{n=\infty}$ (here $T_{\text{BH}}$ is the black-hole temperature). In this paper we analyze the excited instability spectrum of these magnetically charged black holes. The numerical results suggest the existence of a universal behavior for these black-hole excited eigenvalues. In particular, we show that unstable eigenvalues in the regime $\omega_n\ll T_{\text{BH}}$ are characterized, to a very good degree of accuracy, by the simple universal relation $\omega_n(r_+-r_-)={\text{constant}}$, where $r_{\pm}$ are the horizon radii of the black hole.