Quasinormal modes and thermodynamic phase transitions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
It has recently been suggested that scalar, Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger perturbations are related to thermodynamic phase transitions of charged (Reissner-Nordstr\"om) black holes. In this note we show that this result is probably a numerical coincidence, and that the conjectured correspondence does not straightforwardly generalize to other metrics, such as Kerr or Schwarzschild (anti-)de Sitter. Our calculations do not rule out a relation between dynamical and thermodynamical properties of black holes, but they suggest that such a relation is non-trivial.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.1889,
title = {Quasinormal modes and thermodynamic phase transitions},
author = {Emanuele Berti and Vitor Cardoso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.1889},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
3 pages, submitted to Phys.Rev.D as a Brief Report