Physical interpretation of the spectrum of black hole quasinormal modes

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DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.100.141301zbMATH Open1228.83073arXiv0711.3145WikidataQ81375325 ScholiaQ81375325MaRDI QIDQ3107697FDOQ3107697

Michele Maggiore

Publication date: 26 December 2011

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When a classical black hole is perturbed, its relaxation is governed by a set of quasinormal modes with complex frequencies omega= omega_R+iomega_I. We show that this behavior is the same as that of a collection of damped harmonic oscillators whose real frequencies are (omega_R^2+omega_I^2)^{1/2}, rather than simply omega_R. Since, for highly excited modes, omega_I >> omega_R, this observation changes drastically the physical understanding of the black hole spectrum, and forces a reexamination of various results in the literature. In particular, adapting a derivation by Hod, we find that the area of the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole is quantized in units Delta A=8pilpl^2, where lpl is the Planck length (in contrast with the original result Delta A=4log(3) lpl^2). The resulting area quantization does not suffer from a number of difficulties of the original proposal; in particular, it is an intrinsic property of the black hole, independent of the spin of the perturbation.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3145




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