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In an unstable Q-ball hairy black hole the weaker scalar component grows via a second-order QNM sourced by the linear unstable mode rather than its own linear response.

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load-bearing objection The paper shows a second-order QNM can dominate early growth of the weaker scalar component in this unstable Q-ball hairy black hole while the system stays perturbative, and this is not just linear response. the 1 major comments →

arxiv 2604.25223 v2 pith:XZZYDUIL submitted 2026-04-28 gr-qc hep-th

Early-Time Nonlinear Growth in an Unstable Q-Ball Hairy Black Hole

Lang Cheng , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang This is my paper
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keywords Q-ballhairy black holequasinormal modesnonlinear evolutionscalar instabilityEinstein-Maxwell-scalar theoryperturbative regimesecond-order modes
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Standard expectation holds that early departure from an unstable equilibrium follows the associated linear instability. The paper studies a Q-ball configuration in Einstein-Maxwell theory with a charged self-interacting scalar field that possesses a linear unstable mode with unequal amplitudes across the two scalar components. Full nonlinear evolutions combined with first- and second-order QNM calculations show that the strongly responding component tracks its linear mode while the weakly responding component is instead dominated by the second-order mode generated by the first. This separation occurs while the overall evolution is still perturbative, demonstrating that an individual field component need not be controlled by its linear response during the initial growth phase.

Core claim

Combining full nonlinear evolution with first- and second-order quasinormal mode calculations, the early growth of the more weakly responding component of the scalar field is dominated by a second-order QNM sourced by the linear unstable mode. This occurs while the evolution remains perturbative. The results show that the early growth of an individual component need not be governed by its linear response.

What carries the argument

The second-order quasinormal mode sourced by the linear unstable mode, which dominates the growth of the weakly responding scalar-field component while the system stays perturbative.

Load-bearing premise

The evolution remains perturbative during the stage in which the second-order QNM dominates the weaker scalar component.

What would settle it

A higher-resolution nonlinear simulation or explicit third-order calculation in which the weaker component's early growth follows its own linear QNM amplitude before any non-perturbative effects appear.

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If this is right

  • The more strongly responding scalar component continues to track its linear unstable QNM.
  • The weaker component receives its dominant early drive from the quadratic source term generated by the linear mode.
  • Nonlinear coupling between components can control individual growth rates inside the perturbative window.
  • Linear stability analysis alone is insufficient to predict the initial evolution of every field component.

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  • Similar second-order dominance could appear in other multi-field hairy black hole solutions whenever linear modes have unequal amplitudes across components.
  • Numerical relativity codes for early-time instability may need to retain quadratic source terms from the outset to capture the correct component-wise growth.
  • The result implies that mode decomposition in perturbative calculations should track quadratic sourcing even when the total amplitude remains small.

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Summary. The manuscript claims that early-time evolution away from an unstable Q-ball hairy black hole equilibrium in Einstein-Maxwell theory is not always governed by the linear instability: while one scalar component follows the dominant linear unstable QNM, the early growth of the more weakly responding component is instead dominated by a second-order QNM sourced by that linear mode. This occurs while the evolution remains perturbative, as shown by combining full nonlinear numerical evolution with first- and second-order perturbative QNM calculations.

Significance. If substantiated, the result demonstrates that higher-order effects can control the early growth of individual field components even during the linear-growth phase of an instability. This has implications for stability analyses of hairy black holes and nonlinear dynamics in GR more broadly. The combination of nonlinear evolution with explicit first- and second-order QNM calculations is a methodological strength that allows isolation of the sourced second-order contribution.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the second-order QNM dominates the weaker component 'while the evolution remains perturbative' is load-bearing for the central result. Because the linear mode grows exponentially, the sourced second-order term grows quadratically; an explicit bound is required (e.g., maximum |linear amplitude| attained in the time window of interest, or a direct comparison of third-order residuals to the second-order term) to confirm that higher-order contributions remain negligible. Without this quantification the observed dominance could contain non-perturbative contamination.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive feedback on the need for explicit quantification of the perturbative regime. We address the single major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the second-order QNM dominates the weaker component 'while the evolution remains perturbative' is load-bearing for the central result. Because the linear mode grows exponentially, the sourced second-order term grows quadratically; an explicit bound is required (e.g., maximum |linear amplitude| attained in the time window of interest, or a direct comparison of third-order residuals to the second-order term) to confirm that higher-order contributions remain negligible. Without this quantification the observed dominance could contain non-perturbative contamination.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit bound is required to substantiate the claim. In the revised manuscript we will add a direct quantification of the maximum |linear amplitude| attained in the time window of interest, together with a comparison showing that third-order residuals remain negligible relative to the second-order term. This will be incorporated into the abstract and the discussion of perturbative validity. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; claims rest on independent numerical evolution and QNM calculations

full rationale

The paper's central claim—that the weaker scalar component's early growth is dominated by a second-order QNM sourced by the linear unstable mode while remaining perturbative—is supported by direct comparison of full nonlinear numerical evolution against separately computed first- and second-order QNMs. No self-definitional reductions, fitted inputs relabeled as predictions, load-bearing self-citations, or ansatz smuggling appear in the abstract or described methodology. The derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks (numerics and linear perturbation theory), with the perturbative assumption checked via the evolution itself rather than assumed by construction.

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Early-time evolution away from an unstable equilibrium in a nonlinear system is often expected to be governed by the associated linear instability. Combining full nonlinear evolution with first- and second-order quasinormal mode (QNM) calculations, we show that this expectation can fail during the unstable growth stage of a Q-ball hairy black hole in Einstein-Maxwell theory with a charged self-interacting scalar field. The linear unstable QNM has a much larger amplitude in one component of the scalar field than in the other: the more strongly responding component follows that mode, whereas the early growth of the more weakly responding component is dominated by a second-order QNM sourced by the linear unstable mode. This occurs while the evolution remains perturbative. Our results thus show that the early growth of an individual component need not be governed by its linear response.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Time-domain evolution at the BH horizon for an unstable Q-ball hairy BH. The left panels show view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. Coefficient extraction from QNM fits to the horizon view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: shows the ratio R extracted from nonlinear evo￾lutions performed with four different radial grid resolu￾tions, together with the corresponding frequency-domain prediction. The plotted points represent the plateau averages obtained from the selected fitting windows, while the dashed horizontal line indicates the frequency￾domain value. In these evolutions, the instability is trig￾gered solely by intrinsic n… view at source ↗

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