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Quantitative local recovery of Kerr-de Sitter parameters from high-frequency equatorial quasinormal modes

Mathematical Physics 2026-02-18 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study an inverse resonance problem for the scalar wave equation on the Kerr-de Sitter family. In a compact subextremal slow-rotation regime and at a fixed overtone index, high-frequency quasinormal modes admit semiclassical quantization and a real-analytic labeling by angular momentum indices. Using this structure, we first prove that a finite equatorial high-frequency package of quasinormal-mode frequencies determines the mass and rotation parameter (M,a)(M,a) (for fixed cosmological constant Λ>0\Lambda>0), with a quantitative stability estimate. As a key geometric input we compute explicit second-order (in aa) corrections to the equatorial photon-orbit invariants which control the leading real and imaginary parts of the quasinormal modes. Finally, allowing Λ\Lambda to vary in a compact interval, we show that adding one damping observable (the scaled imaginary part of a single equatorial mode) yields a three-parameter inverse theorem: a finite package of three independent real observables determines (M,a,Λ)(M,a,\Lambda) locally in the slow-rotation regime away from a=0a=0.

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@article{arxiv.2602.15764,
  title  = {Quantitative local recovery of Kerr-de Sitter parameters from high-frequency equatorial quasinormal modes},
  author = {Ruiliang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15764},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

68 pages. First paper in a series on inverse Kerr-de Sitter spectroscopy from high-frequency equatorial quasinormal modes