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Price's law for spin fields on a Schwarzschild background

Analysis of PDEs 2023-07-06 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this work, we derive the globally precise late-time asymptotics for the spin-s\mathfrak{s} fields on a Schwarzschild background, including the scalar field (s=0)(\mathfrak{s}=0), the Maxwell field (s=±1)(\mathfrak{s}=\pm 1) and the linearized gravity (s=±2)(\mathfrak{s}=\pm 2). The conjectured Price's law in the physics literature which predicts the sharp rates of decay of the spin s=±ss=\pm \mathfrak{s} components towards the future null infinity as well as in a compact region is shown. Further, we confirm the heuristic claim by Barack and Ori that the spin +1,+2+1, +2 components have an extra power of decay at the event horizon than the conjectured Price's law. The asymptotics are derived via a unified, detailed analysis of the Teukolsky master equation that is satisfied by all these components.

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@article{arxiv.2104.13809,
  title  = {Price's law for spin fields on a Schwarzschild background},
  author = {Siyuan Ma and Lin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13809},
  year   = {2023}
}

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