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Fermionic Quasinormal Spectrum of the Kerr Black Hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study {\it analytically} the asymptotic quasinormal spectrum of fermionic fields in the Kerr spacetime. We find an analytic expression for these black-hole resonances in terms of the black-hole physical parameters: its Bekenstein-Hawking temperature TBHT_{BH}, and its horizon's angular velocity Ω\Omega, which is valid in the asymptotic limit 1ωIωR1 \ll \omega_I \ll \omega_R. It is shown that according to Bohr's correspondence principle, the emission of a Rarita-Schwinger quantum (s=3/2s=3/2) corresponds to a fundamental black-hole area change ΔA=4ln2\Delta A=4\hbar \ln 2, while the emission of a Weyl neutrino field (s=1/2s=1/2) corresponds to an adiabatic quantum transition with ΔA=0\Delta A=0.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0512165,
  title  = {Fermionic Quasinormal Spectrum of the Kerr Black Hole},
  author = {Shahar Hod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0512165},
  year   = {2007}
}

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