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Black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) backgrounds play a pivotal role in the gauge/gravity duality where they determine, among other things, the approach to equilibrium of the dual field theory. We undertake a detailed analysis of perturbed Kerr-AdS black holes in four- and five-dimensional spacetimes, including the computation of its quasinormal modes, hydrodynamic modes and superradiantly unstable modes. Our results shed light on the possibility of new black hole phases with a single Killing field, possible new holographic phenomena and phases in the presence of a rotating chemical potential, and close a crucial gap in our understanding of linearized perturbations of black holes in anti-de Sitter scenarios.
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Cardoso, V., Dias, Ó.J.C., Hartnett, G.S. et al. Holographic thermalization, quasinormal modes and superradiance in Kerr-AdS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 183 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2014)183
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