Probing the Unstable Spectrum of Schwarzschild-like Black Holes

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Main Authors: Siqueira, Pedro Henrique Croti, de Paula, Lucas Tobias, Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso, Richartz, Maurício
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author Siqueira, Pedro Henrique Croti
de Paula, Lucas Tobias
Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso
Richartz, Maurício
author_facet Siqueira, Pedro Henrique Croti
de Paula, Lucas Tobias
Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso
Richartz, Maurício
contents 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 random perturbations to the effective potential associated with gravitational waves may enhance the stability of the underlying wave operator, thereby yielding a stable spectrum of randomly displaced quasinormal modes. Given the unphysical nature of such random perturbations, this work examines these findings within a spacetime that inherently exhibits a perturbed quasinormal spectrum. We find that, in contrast to the QNM spectrum of the Schwarzschild spacetime under random perturbations, the quasinormal spectrum of a Schwarzschild-like black hole deformed through a physically motivated implementation of the Rezzolla-Zhidenko parametrization is unstable. In particular, we show that the pseudospectra of these Schwarzschild-like black holes do not display the typical features associated with wave operators that yield stable quasinormal spectra. We corroborate our findings by computing the quasinormal spectra when additional (ad-hoc) deformations are added to the effective potential of the Rezzolla-Zhidenko black hole. We also argue that when multiple perturbation sources are present, identifying the origin of the instability may be difficult.
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spellingShingle Probing the Unstable Spectrum of Schwarzschild-like Black Holes
Siqueira, Pedro Henrique Croti
de Paula, Lucas Tobias
Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso
Richartz, Maurício
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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 random perturbations to the effective potential associated with gravitational waves may enhance the stability of the underlying wave operator, thereby yielding a stable spectrum of randomly displaced quasinormal modes. Given the unphysical nature of such random perturbations, this work examines these findings within a spacetime that inherently exhibits a perturbed quasinormal spectrum. We find that, in contrast to the QNM spectrum of the Schwarzschild spacetime under random perturbations, the quasinormal spectrum of a Schwarzschild-like black hole deformed through a physically motivated implementation of the Rezzolla-Zhidenko parametrization is unstable. In particular, we show that the pseudospectra of these Schwarzschild-like black holes do not display the typical features associated with wave operators that yield stable quasinormal spectra. We corroborate our findings by computing the quasinormal spectra when additional (ad-hoc) deformations are added to the effective potential of the Rezzolla-Zhidenko black hole. We also argue that when multiple perturbation sources are present, identifying the origin of the instability may be difficult.
title Probing the Unstable Spectrum of Schwarzschild-like Black Holes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13815