Spontaneous Vectorization in the Einstein-Born-Infeld-Vector Model

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Main Authors: Ye, Guang-Zai, Chen, Chong-Ye, Niu, Chao, Zhang, Cheng-Yong, Liu, Peng
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author Ye, Guang-Zai
Chen, Chong-Ye
Niu, Chao
Zhang, Cheng-Yong
Liu, Peng
author_facet Ye, Guang-Zai
Chen, Chong-Ye
Niu, Chao
Zhang, Cheng-Yong
Liu, Peng
contents We investigate spontaneous vectorization in the Einstein-Born-Infeld-Vector (EBIV) model, where a massless vector field is nonminimally coupled to a nonlinear Born-Infeld (BI) electromagnetic field. This coupling results in an effective mass for the vector field in a Born-Infeld black hole (BIBH) background, triggering tachyonic instability. We numerically construct and analyze such vectorized Born-Infeld black holes (VBIBHs), focusing on their domain of existence, thermodynamic properties, and energy distributions in both Reissner-Nordström (RN)-like and Schwarzschild-like backgrounds. In RN-like BI backgrounds, vectorized solutions emerge from the perturbative instability threshold and persist down to extremality, exhibiting higher entropy and lower free energy compared to their unvectorized counterparts. Conversely, in Schwarzschild-like backgrounds, VBIBHs show bifurcation behavior with two coexisting solution branches, only one of which is thermodynamically favored. We reveal a contrasting energy redistribution pattern between the internal and external fields in the two regimes, governed by the competition between the vector field and the nonlinear BI field. Our findings highlight the rich structure of spontaneous vectorization in nonlinear electrodynamics and provide novel insights into black hole physics beyond linear Maxwell theory.
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spellingShingle Spontaneous Vectorization in the Einstein-Born-Infeld-Vector Model
Ye, Guang-Zai
Chen, Chong-Ye
Niu, Chao
Zhang, Cheng-Yong
Liu, Peng
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We investigate spontaneous vectorization in the Einstein-Born-Infeld-Vector (EBIV) model, where a massless vector field is nonminimally coupled to a nonlinear Born-Infeld (BI) electromagnetic field. This coupling results in an effective mass for the vector field in a Born-Infeld black hole (BIBH) background, triggering tachyonic instability. We numerically construct and analyze such vectorized Born-Infeld black holes (VBIBHs), focusing on their domain of existence, thermodynamic properties, and energy distributions in both Reissner-Nordström (RN)-like and Schwarzschild-like backgrounds. In RN-like BI backgrounds, vectorized solutions emerge from the perturbative instability threshold and persist down to extremality, exhibiting higher entropy and lower free energy compared to their unvectorized counterparts. Conversely, in Schwarzschild-like backgrounds, VBIBHs show bifurcation behavior with two coexisting solution branches, only one of which is thermodynamically favored. We reveal a contrasting energy redistribution pattern between the internal and external fields in the two regimes, governed by the competition between the vector field and the nonlinear BI field. Our findings highlight the rich structure of spontaneous vectorization in nonlinear electrodynamics and provide novel insights into black hole physics beyond linear Maxwell theory.
title Spontaneous Vectorization in the Einstein-Born-Infeld-Vector Model
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09821