English

High-order Tail in Schwarzschild Space-time

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-12-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present an analysis of the behaviour at late-times of linear field perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole space-time. In particular, we give explicit analytic expressions for the field perturbations (for a specific multipole) of general spin up to the first four orders at late times. These expressions are valid at arbitrary radius and include, apart from the well-known power-law tail decay at leading order (t23\sim t^{-2\ell-3}), a new logarithmic behaviour at third leading order (t25lnt\sim t^{-2\ell-5}\ln t). We obtain these late-time results by developing the so-called MST formalism and by expanding the various MST Fourier-mode quantities for small frequency. While we give explicit expansions up to the first four leading orders (for small-frequency for the Fourier modes, for late-time for the field perturbation), we give a prescription for obtaining expressions to arbitrary order within a `perturbative regime'.

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@article{arxiv.1509.04702,
  title  = {High-order Tail in Schwarzschild Space-time},
  author = {Marc Casals and Adrian C. Ottewill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04702},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

39 pages, 10 figures. Small improvements throughout

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