Thermodynamic and tachyonic instability for asymptotically flat black holes

Abstract

It was confirmed that the negative modes of the Euclidean section for asymptotically flat black holes reveal the thermodynamic instability of these black holes in the grand canonical ensemble (GCE). These include Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m, Kerr, and Kerr-Newman black holes. In this work, we develop the relation between thermodynamic instability in the GCE and tachyonic instability for asymptotically flat black holes, where the latter is the onset for obtaining black holes with scalar hair. This implies that the tachyonic instability of black holes when introducing scalar coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet term or Maxwell term reflects thermodynamic instability of these black holes in the GCE. We go on further to consider the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole.