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An approach to the quantization of black-hole quasi-normal modes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-09-22 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this work we derive the asymptotic quasi-normal modes of a BTZ black hole using a quantum field theoretic Lagrangian. The BTZ black hole is a very popular system in the context of 2+12+1-dimensional quantum gravity. However to our knowledge the quasi-normal modes of the BTZ black hole have been studied only in the classical domain. Here we show a way to quantize the quasi-normal modes of the BTZ black hole by mapping it to the Bateman-Feschbach-Tikochinsky oscillator and the Caldirola-Kanai oscillator. We have also discussed a couple of other black hole potentials to which this method can be applied

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@article{arxiv.1312.5689,
  title  = {An approach to the quantization of black-hole quasi-normal modes},
  author = {Soham Pal and Karthik Rajeev and S. Shankaranarayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5689},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, converted from double column to single column