Dirac quasinormal modes of D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We find exact solutions to the Dirac equation in D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. Using these solutions we analytically calculate the de Sitter quasinormal (QN) frequencies of the Dirac field. For the massive Dirac field this computation is similar to that previously published for massive fields of half-integer spin moving in four dimensions. However to calculate the QN frequencies of the massless Dirac field we must use distinct methods in odd and even dimensions, therefore the computation is different from that already known for other massless fields of integer spin.
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@article{arxiv.0704.2468,
title = {Dirac quasinormal modes of D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime},
author = {A. Lopez-Ortega},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.2468},
year = {2008}
}
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19 pages