Conserved currents for Kerr and orthogonality of quasinormal modes

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Autores principales: Green, Stephen R., Hollands, Stefan, Sberna, Laura, Toomani, Vahid, Zimmerman, Peter
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Publicado: 2022
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author Green, Stephen R.
Hollands, Stefan
Sberna, Laura
Toomani, Vahid
Zimmerman, Peter
author_facet Green, Stephen R.
Hollands, Stefan
Sberna, Laura
Toomani, Vahid
Zimmerman, Peter
contents We introduce a bilinear form for Weyl scalar perturbations of Kerr. The form is symmetric and conserved, and we show that, when combined with a suitable renormalization prescription involving complex r integration contours, quasinormal modes are orthogonal in the bilinear form for different (l, m, n). These properties are apparently not evident consequences of standard properties for the radial and angular solutions to the decoupled Teukolsky relations and rely on the Petrov type D character of Kerr and its t-$ϕ$ reflection isometry. We show that quasinormal mode excitation coefficients are given precisely by the projection with respect to our bilinear form. These properties can make our bilinear form useful to set up a framework for nonlinear quasinormal mode coupling in Kerr. We also provide a general discussion on conserved local currents and their associated local symmetry operators for metric and Weyl perturbations, identifying a collection containing an increasing number of derivatives.
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spellingShingle Conserved currents for Kerr and orthogonality of quasinormal modes
Green, Stephen R.
Hollands, Stefan
Sberna, Laura
Toomani, Vahid
Zimmerman, Peter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We introduce a bilinear form for Weyl scalar perturbations of Kerr. The form is symmetric and conserved, and we show that, when combined with a suitable renormalization prescription involving complex r integration contours, quasinormal modes are orthogonal in the bilinear form for different (l, m, n). These properties are apparently not evident consequences of standard properties for the radial and angular solutions to the decoupled Teukolsky relations and rely on the Petrov type D character of Kerr and its t-$ϕ$ reflection isometry. We show that quasinormal mode excitation coefficients are given precisely by the projection with respect to our bilinear form. These properties can make our bilinear form useful to set up a framework for nonlinear quasinormal mode coupling in Kerr. We also provide a general discussion on conserved local currents and their associated local symmetry operators for metric and Weyl perturbations, identifying a collection containing an increasing number of derivatives.
title Conserved currents for Kerr and orthogonality of quasinormal modes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15935