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Black Hole Scattering from Monodromy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study scattering coefficients in black hole spacetimes using analytic properties of complexified wave equations. For a concrete example, we analyze the singularities of the Teukolsky equation and relate the corresponding monodromies to scattering data. These techniques, valid in full generality, provide insights into complex-analytic properties of greybody factors and quasinormal modes. This leads to new perturbative and numerical methods which are in good agreement with previous results.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.3781,
  title  = {Black Hole Scattering from Monodromy},
  author = {Alejandra Castro and Joshua M. Lapan and Alexander Maloney and Maria J. Rodriguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.3781},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages + appendices, 2 figures. For Mathematica calculation of Stokes multipliers, download "StokesNotebook" from https://sites.google.com/site/justblackholes/techy-zone

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