Higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes supporting static scalar shells

Abstract

We analytically study scalarization of higher-dimensional charged Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m (RN) black hole. It is shown that static massive scalar field which is non-minimally coupled to Gauss-Bonnet invariant can be supported by higher-dimensional black hole in super-critical charge regime $Q/M\ge \bar{C}_d$ with $Q, M$ charge and mass of the black hole and $\bar{C}_d$ some unitless spacetime dimension-dependent quantity. Moreover, we show that the static massive scalar shell can be quite thin in the large mass regime $\mu M^{\frac{1}{d-3}}\gg 1$ with $\mu$ mass of the scalar field.