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It was recently found that connection coefficients of the Heun equation can be derived in closed form using crossing symmetry in two-dimensional Liouville theory via the Nekrasov-Shatashvili functions. In this work, we systematize this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Paolo Arnaudo , Alba Grassi , Qianyu Hao

Recent works have suggested that nonlinear (quadratic) effects in black hole perturbation theory may be important for describing a black hole ringdown. We show that the technique of uniform approximations can be used to accurately compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Bruno Bucciotti , Adrien Kuntz , Francesco Serra , Enrico Trincherini

We continue our series of papers where we study the quasinormal modes, and their excitation, of black holes in the simplest beyond general relativity model in which first-principle calculations are tractable: a nonrotating black hole in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Hector O. Silva , Giovanni Tambalo , Kostas Glampedakis , Kent Yagi

We discuss new recurrence-based methods for calculating the complex frequencies of the quasinormal modes of black holes. These methods are based on the Frobenius series solutions of the differential equation describing the linearized radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Kristian Benda , Jerzy Matyjasek

To any solution of a linear system of differential equations, we associate a kernel, correlators satisfying a set of loop equations, and in presence of isomonodromic parameters, a Tau function. We then study their semiclassical expansion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Michel Bergère , Gaëtan Borot , Bertrand Eynard

The recently reported compactified hyperboloidal method has found wide use in the numerical computation of quasinormal modes, with implications for fields as diverse as gravitational physics and optics. We extend this intrinsically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Christopher Burgess , Friedrich Koenig

We investigate the numerical stability of accelerated AdS black holes against linear scalar perturbations. In particular, we study the evolution of a probe non-minimally coupled scalar field on Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstr\"om AdS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Rodrigo D. B. Fontana , Filipe C. Mena

We apply the confluent Heun functions to study the resonant frequencies (quasispectrum), the Hawking radiation and the scattering process of scalar waves, in a class of spacetimes, namely, the ones generated by a Kerr-Newman-Kasuya…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 H. S. Vieira , V. B. Bezerra

Within linearized perturbation theory, black holes decay to their final stationary state through the well-known spectrum of quasinormal modes. Here we numerically study whether nonlinearities change this picture. For that purpose we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Enrique Pazos , David Brizuela , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Manuel Tiglio

We perform a detailed study of a class of irregular correlators in Liouville Conformal Field Theory, of the related Virasoro conformal blocks with irregular singularities and of their connection formulae. Upon considering their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Giulio Bonelli , Cristoforo Iossa , Daniel Panea Lichtig , Alessandro Tanzini

Recent detections of gravitational waves have made black hole quasinormal modes a powerful tool in testing predictions of general relativity. Understanding the spectrum of these quasinormal modes in a broad class of theories beyond general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-03 Colin Weller , Dongjun Li , Yanbei Chen

In this work we study whether parametrized spherically symmetric black hole solutions in metric theories of gravity can appear to be isospectral when studying perturbations. From a theory agnostic point of view, the test scalar field wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

The eikonal limit of black hole quasinormal modes (the large multipole limit $\ell \gg 1$) can be realized geometrically as a next-to-leading order solution to the geometric optics approximation, and also as linear fluctuations about the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Bruno Bucciotti , Vitor Cardoso , Adrien Kuntz , David Pereñiguez , Jaime Redondo-Yuste

We perturb the non-rotating BTZ black hole with a non-minimally coupled massless scalar field, and we compute the quasinormal spectrum exactly. We solve the radial equation in terms of hypergeometric functions, and we obtain an analytical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-15 Grigoris Panotopoulos

A recent development involves an intriguing model of a quantum-corrected black hole, established through the application of the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model within loop quantum cosmology [Lewandowski et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 (2023)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Milena Skvortsova

The newly established Seiberg-Witten (SW)/Quasinormal Modes (QNM) correspondence offers an efficient analytical approach to calculate the QNM frequencies, which was only available numerically before. This is based on the fact that both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-05 Xian-Hui Ge , Masataka Matsumoto , Kilar Zhang

We discuss a systematic method of analytically calculating the asymptotic form of quasi-normal frequencies of a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole by expanding around the zeroth-order approximation to the wave equation proposed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Suphot Musiri , George Siopsis

We investigate the pseudospectrum of a Schwarzschild-like spacetime within the framework of black hole perturbation theory to analyze a counterintuitive assertion regarding the instability of quasinormal modes. Recent findings suggest that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Pedro Henrique Croti Siqueira , Lucas Tobias de Paula , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Maurício Richartz

Although finding numerically the quasinormal modes of a nonrotating black hole is a well-studied question, the physics of the problem is often hidden behind complicated numerical procedures aimed at avoiding the direct solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-26 Plamen Fiziev , Denitsa Staicova

In this work, we investigate the relation between bound states and quasinormal modes within black hole perturbation theory in the context of spectral instability. Our analysis indicates that the reliability of such spectral mapping…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Guan-Ru Li , Wei-Liang Qian , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Peng Xu , Rui-Hong Yue