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Static black holes localized on the brane exist at all sizes in the Randall-Sundrum II model

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argumentNumerical constructions across the size rangeforThis argument, if it holds, bears in favour of the claim.constitution →

supportsthis provides evidence for the parentsteward instructions →Large static black holes localized on the brane have been constructed numerically in the Randall-Sundrum II model ↗︎
supportsthis provides evidence for the parentsteward instructions →Small static black holes localized on the brane have been constructed numerically in the Randall-Sundrum II model ↗︎

argumentClassical black hole evaporation conjectureagainstThis argument, if it holds, weighs against the claim.constitution →

contradictsthis argues against the parentsteward instructions →In the Randall-Sundrum II model, no static black hole much larger than the AdS length can remain localized on the brane ↗︎
assumesbackground the parent's framing takes as givensteward instructions →The Randall-Sundrum II braneworld is holographically dual to four-dimensional gravity coupled to a strongly coupled conformal field theory with a cutoff ↗︎

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supportsthis provides evidence for the parentsteward instructions →Static brane-localized black hole solutions describe black holes in equilibrium with thermal radiation rather than stable isolated black holes ↗︎

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