Quantitative local recovery of Kerr-de Sitter parameters from high-frequency equatorial quasinormal modes
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 (for fixed cosmological constant ), with a quantitative stability estimate. As a key geometric input we compute explicit second-order (in ) corrections to the equatorial photon-orbit invariants which control the leading real and imaginary parts of the quasinormal modes. Finally, allowing 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 locally in the slow-rotation regime away from .
Cite
@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