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Sound from extra dimension: quasinormal modes of thick brane

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-02-21 v2

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the quasinormal modes of a thick brane system. Considering the transverse-traceless tensor perturbation of the brane metric, we obtain the Schr\"odinger-like equation of the Kaluza-Klein modes of the tensor perturbation. Then we use the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation and the asymptotic iteration method to solve this Schr\"odinger-like equation. We also study the numeric evolution of an initial wave packet against the thick brane. The results show that there is a set of discrete quasinormal modes in the thick brane model. These quasinormal modes appear as the decaying massive gravitons for a brane observer. They are characteristic modes of the thick brane and can reflect the structure of the thick brane.

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@article{arxiv.2205.05255,
  title  = {Sound from extra dimension: quasinormal modes of thick brane},
  author = {Qin Tan and Wen-Di Guo and Yu-Xiao Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05255},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures, improved version