English

Conformal Klein-Gordon equations and quasinormal modes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Using conformal coordinates associated with conformal relativity -- associated with de Sitter spacetime homeomorphic projection into Minkowski spacetime -- we obtain a conformal Klein-Gordon partial differential equation, which is intimately related to the production of quasi-normal modes (QNMs) oscillations, in the context of electromagnetic and/or gravitational perturbations around, e.g., black holes. While QNMs arise as the solution of a wave-like equation with a Poschl-Teller potential, here we deduce and analytically solve a conformal radial d'Alembert-like equation, from which we derive QNMs formal solutions, in a proposed alternative to more completely describe QNMs. As a by-product we show that this radial equation can be identified with a Schrodinger-like equation in which the potential is exactly the second Poschl-Teller potential, and it can shed some new light on the investigations concerning QNMs.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0603082,
  title  = {Conformal Klein-Gordon equations and quasinormal modes},
  author = {Roldao da Rocha and E. Capelas de Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0603082},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures

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