Correspondence between grey-body factors and quasinormal modes

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Main Authors: Konoplya, R. A., Zhidenko, A.
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Published: 2024
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author Konoplya, R. A.
Zhidenko, A.
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Zhidenko, A.
contents Quasinormal modes and grey-body factors are spectral characteristics corresponding to different boundary conditions: the former imply purely outgoing waves to the event horizon and infinity, while the latter allow for an incoming wave from the horizon, thus describing a scattering problem. Nevertheless, we show that there is a link between these two characteristics. We establish an approximate correspondence between the quasinormal modes and grey-body factors, which becomes exact in the high-frequency (eikonal) regime. We show that, in the eikonal regime, the grey-body factors of spherically symmetric black holes can be remarkably simply expressed via the fundamental quasinormal mode, while at smaller $\ell$, the correction terms include values of the overtones. This might be interesting in the context of the recently observed connection between grey-body factors and the amplitudes of gravitational waves from black holes. The correspondence might explain why grey-body factors are more stable, i.e. less sensitive, than higher overtones to small deformation of the effective potential.
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Konoplya, R. A.
Zhidenko, A.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quasinormal modes and grey-body factors are spectral characteristics corresponding to different boundary conditions: the former imply purely outgoing waves to the event horizon and infinity, while the latter allow for an incoming wave from the horizon, thus describing a scattering problem. Nevertheless, we show that there is a link between these two characteristics. We establish an approximate correspondence between the quasinormal modes and grey-body factors, which becomes exact in the high-frequency (eikonal) regime. We show that, in the eikonal regime, the grey-body factors of spherically symmetric black holes can be remarkably simply expressed via the fundamental quasinormal mode, while at smaller $\ell$, the correction terms include values of the overtones. This might be interesting in the context of the recently observed connection between grey-body factors and the amplitudes of gravitational waves from black holes. The correspondence might explain why grey-body factors are more stable, i.e. less sensitive, than higher overtones to small deformation of the effective potential.
title Correspondence between grey-body factors and quasinormal modes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11694